SVBONY SV28 Plus Spotting Scopes with Tripod, 25-75x70 Angled Spotter Scope with Phone Adapter, IP65 Waterproof Fogproof Long Range Spotting Scope for Target Shooting, Birding

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Very pleased with this spotting scope. Can see shots on target very clearly at 100-200 yards. I’m sure even at further distances with no issue. Clear and crisp. Zoomed in to 75 and at a mile away could see air conditioning unit on top of a building. Very impressed. For the price don’t pass on this purchase.

Great spotting scope, good optics and price

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I am a cheapass birdwatcher. I bought this for one purpose--to get better views of a bald eagle nest across a river (I don't have an exact distance but Google Maps estimates it at 1000ft). It does a good job for the price, with a few caveats that are mostly related to my lack of experience with digiscoping (photos/video from a camera strapped to an eyepiece). tl;dr You'll need a real tripod for birdwatching, and the 75x is not as useful as 50x for various reasons. Also, ditch the phone adapter and get a clamp-on eyepiece camera. Compared with anything else currently in this price range, the optics on this scope are astoundingly good. The scope has a variable zoom ring that lets you pick a magnification between 25 and 75 (by comparison, my binoculars provide 8x). At 25 the images are fairly bright and clear, but from 50 onwards there is significant color bleeding on anything white. The same would be true of any other simple scope without corrective ED glass or similar, so I can't really count this as a fault. In my case the sweet spot appears to be just around 50x. Scopes that address this problem are typically at least 4-10x more expensive. (The 8x image in the attached photos is from an iPhone aimed through binoculars, the other photos are from the SC002 eyepiece camera attached to the SV28 scope.) Another related issue that doesn't have anything to do with this particular scope, is that you're going to need a sturdy tripod to use this in the field at all. The small tripod included with the scope wasn't useful to me. I trialed the cheapest tripods I could find on Amazon, and even though they work okay, there's no getting around that even a light breeze will cause your scope to wobble erratically, and this is made vastly worse at higher magnification. Again, this is not an issue with the scope, but a general problem with digiscoping. The tripod will end up being bulkier and heavier than the scope, so expect to make room for it in your travel kit. The focus knob is okay at lower magnifications, but it is not very precise at 75x. You might not notice this until you try to focus a camera through the eyepiece. Finally, the package comes with a universal phone mount so you can hopefully position your phone's camera lens over the eyepiece. All I can say about this is, don't bother. There are many products identical to this and they all deliver a horrible experience. Even if you manage to get your camera positioned correctly, now you cannot focus your scope, change a setting on your phone, or even activate the shutter without physically touching something, which puts the combination of scope, camera, and tripod into wobble-o-rama mode. There are various solutions you can try, but the one I eventually went with was to get the SVBONY SC002 Wifi eyepiece camera, which you can now get in a bundle with the scope. This turns the camera setup from an agonizing ordeal into a 10-second twist-on procedure and lets you control the camera remotely from your phone. Whatever its deficiencies, it has made digiscoping fun again. I've also tried using this scope on targets that were not quite so distant, around 30-40 ft away, with the conclusion that 25x is simply too much magnification at short distances. I can get maybe the bird's head or its feet into view, but not both. It's a bit of a pickle, but you just can't have everything.