Manufacturer's product description:
Omegon PhotoScope - a combination of telescope, spotting scope and camera lens
The advantages in a nutshell:
- versatile - telescope, spotting scope and camera lens all in one instrument
- apochromatic optics - extremely sharp, high contrast images right out to the edge
- lightning-fast focusing - large diameter focus ring with 'Quick Focus' mechanism
- fine focusing for perfect sharpness
- well protected - internal focusing
- small compact travel telescope with 72mm aperture
- Amici prism turns it into a high-end spotting scope
- super telephoto - available as camera lens with a 432mm focal length
- fits on any tripod: 1/4" photo thread connection
- includes carrying case with foam lining
- lensmaterial: FPL 51
Our expert comment:
A field-flattener is additionally needed for astrophotography with a DSLR. The Omegon Field-Flattener and, in addition, a 15mm extension tube plus a
T-2 adapter are required.
(Bernd Gährken)
Test report by Thomas Gade:
http://www.photoinfos.com/astronomie/Omegon-photography-scope-72-432-ed.htm
Using an Amici prism, the PhotoScope is transformed into a high-end spotting scope for nature watching
A greenfinch - taken with an Omegon PhotoScope and a Canon EOS camera
A chaffinch - taken with the Omegon PhotoScope and a Canon EOS camera
The Pleiades, taken with a Photography Scope
M13, taken with the Photography Scope
The galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major - photographed with a PhotoScope and Omegon field flattener
M8 Lagoon Nebula, taken with an Omegon Photography Scope and Omegon 2'' field flattener.
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