Reply With QuoteOften called "wide angle" back in the 70's. Nearly always masked internally. Iirc redfield may have produced some scopes with a TV shaped ocular?
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TV view scopes, what's all that about?
Just been going through my pile of spare scopes, to find a suitable one to fit on my Superstar, I found an old Nikko gold crown but then realised it has a TV view, that's messing with my head.
Am I alone with this?
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Often called "wide angle" back in the 70's. Nearly always masked internally. Iirc redfield may have produced some scopes with a TV shaped ocular?
may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
As above, nearly all were masked internally. They were a con. Just a marketting move, eyes like round apertures.
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Christ, I'd forgotten about those. I had a tasco on my first hw85k with that wide angle con. Not a bad scope but could not gett on with the image. Swapped it for an apollo 5 Star scope.
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Weaver I believe made some with an actual TV shaped ocular lens, with pretty good glass. Most just blanked off to look TV!
All just a marketing gimmick.
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As already mentioned, the Redfield widefield “Lo-Pro” is a true wide angle “TV view” scope with oval shaped wide angle ocular and objective lens - here is a pic of one sat on my old Daystate https://ibb.co/LrdTk4M
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I remember themOriginally Posted by benchstop
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Surely the important bit is the aim point in the middle, so who cares if the full picture is round or "tv" shaped lol
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Just remembered. It was called "omni view" on the scope I had.
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Ah, but could you watch a round TV?
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I'm guessing it masked the outer edges of the cheaper lenses they used.
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Certainly masking hides outer edge lens irregularities. Thankfully lens technologies have got much better to the point edge to edge crisp images are pretty easy to do well.
Another reason for masking was to lessen scope body interior reflections bouncing about. Cheap scopes can have some pretty rough interiors which isn't helpful.
That Redfield is what I was thinking of. Maybe a few badged that design?? In truth those with such a design had pretty good glass.
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I have a Japan RWS/Hakko 4x32 AO that has the TV Box. Had one in 2-7x32 as well. Weird scopes, they're just blanked out
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Tasco, Kassnar, Weaver to name a few did the TV view back in the day. Mach 1.5
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