Meade Series 5000 eyepieces--- any first sightings?

Anyone seen one of the 5000 series?

Any word yet on what "long eye relief" actually means?

Any specs out anywhere on size and weight?

Any speculation on whether the 60 degree Plossls will have anything
other than slush & mush for the outer 10 degrees?

By the way, count me as one more of those who like the new look and
colors.

Larry Stedman
Vestal

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:44:55 GMT, Larry Stedman
wrote:

Anyone seen one of the 5000 series?

Any word yet on what "long eye relief" actually means?

Any specs out anywhere on size and weight?

Any speculation on whether the 60 degree Plossls will have anything
other than slush & mush for the outer 10 degrees?

IF they don't, watch Radian prices fall like a stone.
There are three things I want to know about these new
eyepieces:
1. Are the Plossls any good?
2. Are the Superwides as good as Panoptics?
3. Are the Ultrawides as good as what Meade now has?
-Rich

There are three things I want to know about these new
eyepieces:
1. Are the Plossls any good?
2. Are the Superwides as good as Panoptics?
3. Are the Ultrawides as good as what Meade now has?
-Rich

I just want to know how any 5 element eyepiece series with 60 degree
AFOV can be honestly sold as Plossl's. :-)

Lawrence Sayre
--
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a moral being, with his own happiness as the moral
purpose of his life, with productive achievement as
his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand (in the appendix to 'Atlas Shrugged')

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:15:32 GMT, Lawrence Sayre
wrote:


There are three things I want to know about these new
eyepieces:
1. Are the Plossls any good?
2. Are the Superwides as good as Panoptics?
3. Are the Ultrawides as good as what Meade now has?
-Rich

I just want to know how any 5 element eyepiece series with 60 degree
AFOV can be honestly sold as Plossl's. :-)

When Meade's very first Plossls came out, I thought they were
rudimentary Erfles, owing to the 5-element design. Instead,
the commercial offerings that use this are Masuyama, Takahashi,
Meade (then and now), and Celestron with the Ultima. There are
others as well. Limiting the
FOV to 50 deg. maybe Meade rationalized Plossl was the best term,
particularly since the Plossl had not to much earlier come to
fame thanks to TeleVue and prior to that, Clave. In other words,
Meade sold on an existing demand. When Meade introduced them,
Erfles were "old" sounding and so were orthos thanks to economizing
and propagandizing efforts of the Plossl sellers.
-Rich
-Rich

astronomics.com has eye relief specs on all the eyepieces...

If accurate, they will be good news to some, bad news to eyeglass
wearers!

"Long eye relief" may turn out to be a misnomer.

Larry Stedman
Vestal

Six weeks later, and I'm still wondering the same thing: any first
sightings?