Celestron Regal M2 80ED Angled Zoom Spotting Scope, Black/Green

I received the scope today and immediately set it up. I liked that the eyepiece had a really nice eyepiece cover made out of a solid metal. Probably brass or something. I then put on a tripod and started focusing on objects in the distance. I used the sighting line on the lens shade to help site in. I found this easier than other spotting scopes I have used. Others have a tiny sighting scope that just seems to make the scope bulkier. I have a Nikon spotting scope and the spotter is plastic. Once I felt I was lined up I was able to use the course focus adjustment to focus on the objects. Once this was set the fine adjustment really brought in the object crisp and clear. The focus adjustments were easy to use, smooth and fast to set. I used various objects at variable distances. Very smooth to adjust the focus and found it was easy to set by feel of my hand. The eyepiece is a 16x to 48x magnification. I set the eyecup up since I do not wear glasses. Felt very comfortable. I started at 16x on objects and found it easy to zoom in and out by rotating the eyepiece. As mentioned adjusting the focus was easy to do with my hand while looking through the eye piece. The tripod mount allows rotation of the scope. Real easy to do, slight turn of the knob and the tripod ring rotates. As the ring rotates it clicks into different positions. I rotated it a full 360 degrees as the manual states. At the same time I adjusted the eye piece fairly easy by loosening the lock ring on the eye piece. Nice to be able to do this. I like to go to the gun range and shoot prone. I can see how the versatile positioning will work with the proper mount. The tripod mount is great because it has 4 holes to mount with. This allows to mount the scope balance. My Nikon has one hole so however the scope mounts is how it mounts. The Celestron mount is much better. After I setup the scope and practiced I disassembled and put in the carry bag that it came with. I drove out to the rifle range. I put some lead down range about 200 yards and was able to see my target crystal clear. I used 3 different rifles. .308 easily seen and clear, .223 clear and crisp, and .17 HMR no issues seeing how I did. I used standard silhouette targets, non color change. Highly recommended.

Very nice scope worth the £650, nice crisp image gets bit darker if zoom past 45x but it's still great value, have upgraded mine to the 100mm version which has perfect zoom up to 67x loses no brightness. Both scopes are heavy though need a good stable tripod.

Non essendo un esperto do' il mio parere personale: il cannocchiale è molto luminoso, nitido fino a circa 55X poi degrada parecchio fino a diventare quasi inguardabile a 67X, lo zoom è buono e la rotella per regolare la messa a fuoco è fluida e precisa, si trasporta bene con la sacca in dotazione che è comoda ma un po' troppo scadente come qualità. Tutto sommato è un buon prodotto lo consiglio a chi vuole un spotting scope luminoso senza spendere un capitale anche perché devo ammettere che agli ingrandimenti medio bassi si vede benissimo.

Molette de réglages très dure pour la maniabilité. Avec tâches sur les lentilles ? Principal reproche appareil de retour non précisé dans la vente initiale ,emballage de retour visiblement pas de contrôle par le vendeur .

Lovely spotter. Optics are great.