Overall Rating: 10
Weight: 3 (Unreliable Vote)
Date: 11/27/2001 02:12:21 pm PST
By: Anonymous (xxx.xxx.152.112)
Link to this vote: http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/displayvote.php?voteid=39172

>I use my Televue 85 mainly as a daytime wildlife scope with fabulous results. I support it with a sturdy Bogen and the Telepod head.  Slipping on my 35 mm camera converts my TV 85 into a tac sharp (to the corners) 600 mm lens. Try that with any other telescope! Here's to Al Nagler! Hoorah!

Just in case anyone is misled by that comment - one must assume that he/she is referring only to daytime photos of 3-D scenes. Because unless you also add an appropriate field-flattener/corrector (TeleVue supply them for a few hundred $ extra), you *won't* get 35mm astrophotos which are "sharp to the corners" with this or any other 2-element refractor.