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Originally Posted by RoyW  It all depends what you want to get out of the scope. I've used a MM (I borrowed one and took it away on a foreign trip), but I wasn't overly impressed. I now own a Nikon ED50, which I use for trips when I want to travel light - but I tend to take its bigger brother, the ED82, out when birding in the UK. |
Couldn't agree more, the last bit of comment was meant very tongue in cheek.
I don't spend a lot of time looking through a scope, I use the scope very little just using it now and then to get a bit of a closer view than the bins. If you are going to use the scope a lot then the MM2 is going to be a disappointment.
Also for the greatest part of the time I'm not out birding etc, I am out working in the countryside and want to travel very light. The MM2 is ideal because it slips into my wax jacket pocket or into the botton of my game bag and it's cheap compared to other scopes so if it gets bashed around it isn't any great loss.
(I use a game bag not because I shoot but because they are excellent outdoor bags).
If you are seriously going to use the scope a lot in all light conditions to get really good views of fauna then the MM2 isn't the way to go. I did have a larger scope but found that I just didn't want to lug it around, but the sacrafice is that the image quality I get now is very poor in comparison - but that said I use it more and it suits my needs.
I also made the descision at the time to trade my larger scope in to make an upgrade purchase to the best possible bins (for my eyes) I could afford as they get used the most and downgraded the scope which is less frequently used.
It's all horses for courses.