Nikon Fieldscope ED50 Angled (Pearlescent Green)

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The eyepiece combines well with the ED (extra low dispersion) glass in the objective lens to deliver a lovely sharp, high contrast image, with good colour fidelity, surprisingly good brightness and a wide field of view. There’s no sign of chromatic aberration (colour fringing) in normal use and resolution is excellent, revealing plenty of fine detail (the ED glass doing its thing).

Focusing is achieved through a simple focus knob in front of the eyepiece, and as you’d expect from Nikon it is smooth, fluid and accurate… no issues there. The close focus was quite impressive in scope terms, and I found I could comfortably focus on objects around 3 metres away — although I suspect this will vary depending on the eyepiece used.Thanks for the information joannec I really appreciate your comments, unfortunately, a scope carrier was out of budget due to the price of the scope initially as it was the very top of my budget. We test spotting scopes within the field on moving subjects and landmarks for our buying guides and look for a scope that combines magnification, good construction, and image clarity, which can be used and withstand a day's bird watching or wildlife spotting. Budget is also an indicator and within this guide, you will find spotting scopes to suit everyone's budget. Nikon has slightly wider field of view (27× vs 32x). It's a travesty that the Opticron 32x eyepiece is no longer available, but then I've never tried one of the zooms on it?

There are seven eyepieces for optimum optical performance, all fully multilayer coated giving you the greatest flexibility possible. There are 5 wide angle eyepieces ranging from 20x to a massive 75x magnification, one with a 20-60x zoom eyepiece that offers superb optical performance with minimized distortion and long eye relief (18.4-16.5mm). I have a long history of matching glass to the hunt I’m on. I don’t like being over-glassed any more than I like being over-gunned. Sure, if you only own one spotting scope and it’s heavy, you gotta roll with it. But think about this: What if you could save pounds in your spotter and not leave critical performance on the table? If you’re open-minded enough to consider that thought–and budget allows–then read on about the little Nikon Fieldscope 13-30×50 (product link here) A Little History The angled view Fieldscope ED50 13-30x50 Spotting Scope from Nikon is a compact and lightweight spotting scope with a 50mm ED (extra-low dispersion) objective lens for chromatic aberration. Nikon especially developed ED glass to provide precise optical color correction. many thanks to bill for helping me through the process and a shoutout to mayomayo for the very nice idea. Perhaps a tiny amount more detail is available to the eye through the Opticron, and this is probably more to do with the extra magnification, and also the extra brightness/contrast, but the Nikon gives up very little to the Opticron once your eyes adjust to it.It is certainly possible, but not with the small form factor EPs of the old Fieldscopes. When they brought out the EDG series they went with a modern bayonet, large form factor EP lineup. Completely inclusive of a bunch of fixed focal length EPs, but still the only zoom option had a very narrow AFOV.