Pros & Cons
Pros
The 25-75 zoom is good enough to be getting on with. At full zoom it is important not to touch off the scope while viewing. The magnification is so good that identification of birds has become easier to do.
Cons
At 25x you get reasonable results but even at this magnification some minor aberration is noticeable. At 50x spherical aberration starts to creep in around the outside of fov. The outer shell is hard plastic; which does makes them lightweight but also... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Very impressed with the quality at this price
Good quality light weight and good price delivered very quickly and well packaged
Plus the mini hand held could never really compete with the specifications of these larger scopes
Those really arent worth wasting the money on as youll just be disappointed
Price
Other than that it is a good scope at a great price
Competitiveness
Think i will invest in a fullsize tripod for it though but this does not detract from the great quality of the scope itself
I have attached the scope to a manfrotto camera tripod and i am quite pleased
In reality this is just a 25x magnification because if you increase it the image quality falls off rapidly
I used a selfie stick to trigger the phone to take the photo because the slightest touch makes everything shake like crazy
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Those really arent worth wasting the money on as youll just be disappointed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The mobile phone attachment is a bit tricky to get fitted
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The instructions do not help at all
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not sure how they felt about it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When this arrived the screw for the tripod did not go in to the scope far enough so was wobbly and unusable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I contacted the seller and they sent me a new tripod which had the same issue
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So i contacted them again and they sent a new scope
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The phone holder doesn’t work with my iphone 13 max but i managed a rather dodgy photo using an iphone 7