Posted 09/17/2013 04:31 am
Can't say I know anything about that brand of scope, but it looks nice. Know nothing about the camera. I have a LW Scientific Stereo scope, similar without the third input for a camera, I have to remove one of my eyepieces for photo taking, works okay though. This power range is excellent, my scope only goes 3-15x I rarely use more than 15x anyways. Wide angle eyepieces are a must when using the scope at lower power and looking at coins. This set up looks pretty good and the price isn't bad, I paid around $400.00 for mine with no camera about 7 years ago.
More detailed link at AM-Scope directly:
http://www.amscope.com/sm-2tz-3m.html
There are some other models a bit cheaper, if it were me, I'd skimp on the camera or get one from another source, that is probably the cheapest part of the whole rig. There are always better cameras coming out, and I feel they are putting a bit of a price bump on the included camera.
AM Scope is a decent company from what I know. They were a competitor to a company I worked at for a few years (selling astronomy goods primarily). Never heard anything bad about them.
I image with really high end cameras on telescopes, several of the cameras I use are over $10K and I will say there are a lot of cameras that come in on the other end of the cost scale that are very, very good as well. I use a modified webcam with success on my stereo scope, but it is only B&W, a Phillips Toucam 1024x768 model, cost around $200
Overall though it looks like a pretty outstanding deal!
More detailed link at AM-Scope directly:
http://www.amscope.com/sm-2tz-3m.html
There are some other models a bit cheaper, if it were me, I'd skimp on the camera or get one from another source, that is probably the cheapest part of the whole rig. There are always better cameras coming out, and I feel they are putting a bit of a price bump on the included camera.
AM Scope is a decent company from what I know. They were a competitor to a company I worked at for a few years (selling astronomy goods primarily). Never heard anything bad about them.
I image with really high end cameras on telescopes, several of the cameras I use are over $10K and I will say there are a lot of cameras that come in on the other end of the cost scale that are very, very good as well. I use a modified webcam with success on my stereo scope, but it is only B&W, a Phillips Toucam 1024x768 model, cost around $200
Overall though it looks like a pretty outstanding deal!
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Edited by westcoin
09/17/2013 04:43 am
09/17/2013 04:43 am
