Re: Scope Quality Question

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:42:30 GMT, "GTO" <gregor_o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>That's about the age of my old PZO scope. Then my assumption might be pretty
>accurate that your Swift is similar to my PZO in mechanical quality. Does it
>have a monocular (one eye) tubus with Achromat lenses (4x,10x,40x,100x/oil),
>a condenser and a simple illuminator with a frosted glass?
>
>If it's 25 years old, I do not think that it was made in China. Kevin?
>
>Gregor
>

Mine says series 950.
(probably a 952B)

Monocular

4X 0.15
10X 0.25
40X 0.65 (microplan)

eyepiece W10X 15.5MM
frosted illuminator

On the illuminator it says made in Japan.

IIRC I asked at the time I ordered it for upgraded optics and paid
extra.

all dry, no oil.

I'm mostly curious how much I would see better with a better
instrument. Maybe none. My most sever problem is not knowing what I
am looking at. Pond bugs and algae, mostly. I recently tried to
identify goldfish/koi parasites, but I don't know what they look like
except from reading about them in a book.

I have a low power binocular instrument I got from Cole-Parmer, their
brand, made in China. It seems good to me.


--
Charles

Does not play well with others.
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