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bcrash15 · January 20, 2010, 10:41 PM

It is like rifle scopes if you are familiar with those. If it is standard it really could be written more appropriately 20-60x80. Which means it would be a telephoto scope capable of zooms of 20x to 60x magnification and the objective (the big lens) is 80mm in diameter. In general, the bigger the objective the clearer the picture and the less light you need to see well.

January 20, 2010, 10:41 PM	#10
bcrash15 Senior Member Join Date: April 7, 2007 Posts: 455	It is like rifle scopes if you are familiar with those. If it is standard it really could be written more appropriately 20-60x80. Which means it would be a telephoto scope capable of zooms of 20x to 60x magnification and the objective (the big lens) is 80mm in diameter. In general, the bigger the objective the clearer the picture and the less light you need to see well.