It just wouldn’t seem like a birding festival without Clay Taylor, Swarovski‘s master digiscoper. Fortunately, Clay is present at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival and freely sharing his wisdom with all visitors the the Swarovski booth as well as out in the field.
The good people at Swarovski also included an exciting new eyepiece in their display at RGV – a 25-50x model. I had the opportunity to look through one mounted on an ATS 80 spotting scope and I can honestly say, despite my frequently expressed preference for “prime” spotting scope eyepieces such as 30x or 32x Wide designs, that this new 25-50x model is indeed quite impressive. It offers the expansive field of view and deep depth of field usually only found in prime eyepieces.
Moblogging next to a collection of fine Austrian optical instruments, peace and good bird watching.
