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Image alignment

Started by aaronsland, 05/17/2004 05:23PM
Posted 05/17/2004 05:23PM Opening Post
When viewing with my bino's on Saturday I was having trouble with image alignment with the higher magniifcation EP's. I was fine when viewing with the normal range of 17mm through 25mm. But when I tried the higher 3mm through 12mm I was getting a lot of doubling of the image, which I could not get corrected. Any ideas?
Michael

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Posted 05/17/2004 06:07PM #1
Mike,

You can try rotating the ep's in the holders. Might help. Also, if you have Denks, there is always a little wiggle available if you push hard enough on them. Try tilting the ep's in the holders. If you are using a Televue, they are immovable once you tighten the ep holder up.

This will only lead you to the conclusion that your binoviewiers are probably not collimated. Or maybe they are and you cannot repeat the ep placement every time they are inserted. I found this to be true when my Denk Stds still had the delrin ep holders. Convenient, but they were unpredictable. Play around with wiggling and see what happens.

For reference, I have no trouble merging 7mm orthos in any of my binoviewers, even at 505x with a 2.5x corrector.

Let us know what you find.

Tom