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Which Leupold scope? Advice Please!
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 100098"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p> <strong>The truth on the objectives is the large objectives are only a help when you start to go over 15-16 power in low light. They only put them on the lower magnification for "americans, bigger is better attitude". </strong> RUMS RULE </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p></p><p>Someone has pulled the wool over your objective lens. For the same magnification, light gathering is directly proportional to the square of the objective lens diameter (ie, a small increase in objective lens can yield a Ginormous increase in visibility under low light conditions.</p><p></p><p>It's a trivial calculation </p><p>exit pupil size = objective lens dia/magnification</p><p> <a href="http://www.celestron.com/education/binbasic.htm" target="_blank">Optics basics</a></p><p></p><p>BTW, I agree that RUMS rule. I currently have 3 and the 4th (and best, 7mm) in the planning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 100098"] [ QUOTE ] [b]The truth on the objectives is the large objectives are only a help when you start to go over 15-16 power in low light. They only put them on the lower magnification for "americans, bigger is better attitude". [/b] RUMS RULE [/ QUOTE ] Someone has pulled the wool over your objective lens. For the same magnification, light gathering is directly proportional to the square of the objective lens diameter (ie, a small increase in objective lens can yield a Ginormous increase in visibility under low light conditions. It's a trivial calculation exit pupil size = objective lens dia/magnification [url="http://www.celestron.com/education/binbasic.htm"]Optics basics[/url] BTW, I agree that RUMS rule. I currently have 3 and the 4th (and best, 7mm) in the planning. [/QUOTE]
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