Won a Spotting scope with camera attachment..

[johnbaz 363]

Hi all

I have a few spotting scopes/Binoculars and telescopes but I won this Opticron HR80 on fleabay a couple of days ago which has an adapter for a camera that i've not seen before, I thought it would just be a T ring and adaptor but this has a strange long tube with figures on it!!
 

I can see what looks like the T ring but then there's the big bulky thing and the tube that i've never seen before, Anyone know what they are?

It also comes with a normal fixed mag lens (27x for the 80mm objective) 

 

Here's a couple of pics of birds that I took from my back garden to the oak tree around a hundred feet away, I used my Lumix TZ60 at the full intenilgent mag (60x) It has image stabilisation otherwise the birds would be unrecognisable with my shaky hands!! 

 

 

The tree is the farthest one at the right, This is normal size with no zoom..

 

Can't wait for the scope to land and have a play!

 

EDIT, Sorry, I just noticed there's an FAQ page, I think this should have maybe gone in that section!

John 

Edited May 25, 2020 by johnbaz

[johnbaz 363]

Well, The scope arrived and the objective lens is full of fungal bloom, It's going back tomorrow 

 

John 

[johnbaz 363]

Turns out it's not fungal but a balsam breakdown, The objective lens is actually more than one and they're cemented together, Something has happened to make it partially let go, I was told the lenses could be fully parted and the balsam cement washed off then rebuilt!

Nope, Not a job I fance, I've been refunded in full but it cost me £11 to post the darned thing back 

 

 

john..