98-06-04, Brian Bell writes:

<< ....Richard, glad you have a good instrument to replace your previous one.
A
quibble, but in discussing optics the convention is that the objective
is the main lens and the 20x, 30x or 20-60x are eyepieces. They are a
set of secondary lenses which act to magnify the image gathered by the
objective (you know - the big one on the front and the little ones on
the back).... >>

Ooops... I stand corrected :-|. Thanks Brian :-). I knew that but sometimes
one (me) gets going on a train of thought without really thinking and
realizing what one (me) is writing, especially when in a hurry. I guess i got
my 'objectives' mixed up when the *real* objective was just to land the beast.
As long as I'm making corrections, the tripod was not the Bogen 3021 model as
stated, rather the black anodized 3221 model. They are the same thing except
that the 3021 model is the silver aluminum version.

Richard Rowlett (Pagodroma at aol.com)
47.56N, 122.13W
(Seattle/Bellevue, WA USA)