I have both the Tele Vue and Tak LE in the 5mm focal length,
Rob. From using both so far, I haven't been able to see any
difference between the two, no difference in color cast, brightness or contrast that I could see, except the followings:
- the Tak has a very noticeable smaller FOV (felt constricted to me ;-)
- the Radian has a much more comfortable eyerelief, although the Tak is acceptable without glasses.
- the Radian has more lateral color (the Tak has it too!) near the edge of the FOV.
- the Tak is prone to fogging up due to my warm eyes. I solved the problem by folding down the rubber eyecup and it works fine now.
- the Tak is much smaller and much, much lighter than the
Radian. You should consider this to avoid balancing problem.
http://members.cox.net/ronby/Toys/Tak5-vs-Rad5-1.htm
Both eyepiece, IMO, are superb with the Tak having enough eye relief especially with the rubber eyecup folded down without wearing eyeglasses. I can't imagine you could go wrong with either. Though I now use the 5mm Radian much more often than my Tak LE, I cannot bring myself to part with the Tak. Why? It works so well with my 2X Ultima
Barlow ;-).
Why take my nobody's words for it ;-). See here as to what Thomas Back think.
http://voltaire.csun.edu/tmb/tmb3.html
Ron B[ee]
Rob. From using both so far, I haven't been able to see any
difference between the two, no difference in color cast, brightness or contrast that I could see, except the followings:
- the Tak has a very noticeable smaller FOV (felt constricted to me ;-)
- the Radian has a much more comfortable eyerelief, although the Tak is acceptable without glasses.
- the Radian has more lateral color (the Tak has it too!) near the edge of the FOV.
- the Tak is prone to fogging up due to my warm eyes. I solved the problem by folding down the rubber eyecup and it works fine now.
- the Tak is much smaller and much, much lighter than the
Radian. You should consider this to avoid balancing problem.
http://members.cox.net/ronby/Toys/Tak5-vs-Rad5-1.htm
Both eyepiece, IMO, are superb with the Tak having enough eye relief especially with the rubber eyecup folded down without wearing eyeglasses. I can't imagine you could go wrong with either. Though I now use the 5mm Radian much more often than my Tak LE, I cannot bring myself to part with the Tak. Why? It works so well with my 2X Ultima
Barlow ;-).
Why take my nobody's words for it ;-). See here as to what Thomas Back think.
http://voltaire.csun.edu/tmb/tmb3.html
Ron B[ee]
