Kowa TSN-880 Series Angled Body High Performance Spotting Scope with PROMINAR Pure Fluorite Lens, 88 mm Green

I have been a birder for decades and have always dreamed of a spotting scope of this caliber. From the first view, the Kowa 883 produces a bright, ultra sharp image to the edge of the field at all magnifications. Using the 20 to 60 zoom and the fast ruff and fine focus is so easy that there is no learning curve. I taught astronomy for 32 years and had nothing with this ease of use. Maybe Kowa should build telescopes with the technology they use for spotting scopes? My wife and I both agree this is an amazing product.

Upgraded from a 30 year old Kowa. Man, optics have sure improved. Use it with a 25X fixed power LER lens. Hard to see how there can be a much better scope out there than this one. Dedicated f-class shooter. Seeing the mirage is now much easier. I would recommend highly, but the cost is a bit much to swallow:)

The best birding and digiscoping instrument you can own. Very Pleased with it. I have also bought the digiscoping accessories that Kowa has designed and manufactured for this scope. This is one that you can buy with complete confidence.

arrived in perfect shape. Is everything we hoped for in a great spotting scope.

I bought my “883” about 6 months ago and love it. I have been digiscoping with it and the picture quality is excellent. It is at the heavy end of scopes so know that when you buy it. It will require a good strong tripod. Worth every penny. I am otherwise a swarovski person but there is more value here

My wife and I (birders) have had this scope for about a year. Love it. Great combination of reasonable weight and size with excellent optics and pleasurable view. It comes with a well made fitted protective cover that allows the scope to be used on tripod without removing the cover. The only caveat we have is that the scope is quite expensive. There are other brands that are also expensive and possess reputations for quality. Having tried out a number of scopes, we chose this one and would do so again after using it in the field.The one thing we soon found problematic was "finding" our desired subject with the angled eyepiece and the "finder" line cast into the scope was not helpful. We found a solution by me making a bracket to hold our Leupold 10x20x-40mm compact scope above the Kowa and using it as our finder scope. See the photo on the Amazon product page. (This photo is also on Amazon's Leupold product page with explanatory notes.) We recently bought a Celestron 52303 Regal Refractor 100mm which is an excellent scope for the price.

Best spotting scope,I have ever looked through. On a fairly good day can see 6 dasher bullet holes at 600 yds. Scope Is clear and bright everything I thought it would be. Hoping to see holes at 1000 yds. on a real real good day. I've had the scope for one month and use every Friday . Days have been cold and windy Dec, and Jan. in NM. Hoping for better weather to get the best out of the scope.Thanks Gilbertdec, Jan.

First of all, as an amateur astronomer I have owned and looked through number of really high quality telescopes including Takahashi, TEC, APM, SW Esprit, etc, I can conform that this spotting scope has very high quality lenses, no chromatic aberration at all, and the view is very sharp all the way to the edge!Also, I did a star test last night, and again, it was perfect.These images was hand-held test shot in a hazy morning, the view with my eyes was way better indeed!Highly recommended.UPDATE:I have been using this spotting scope for the last couple of months, and I have to say I'm impressed even more!For wild life watching and for astronomy, this scope proves that it's very high quality, no image distortion, and no chromatic aberration!I got Kowa adapter for Digi-scoping, and now I can capture stunning images with this scope.So far I'm so happy with it, and nothing to complain about it.

Dieses Spektiv ist auch für mich als Anfänger einfach zu bedienen. Sehr guter Kontrast und satte Farben. Nutze das Spektiv zum Phonescoping. Man sollte den Fernauslöser (Gesten-/Sprachsteuerung) des Smartphones (Smartphone sollte eine sehr gute Kamera haben mit optischem Zoom) nutzen, da es sonst zu Verwacklungen durch das Antippen des Smartphone-Displays kommen kann. Spektiv ist "made in Japan" und von außerordentlicher Güte. Sehr gute Haptik. Durch dieses Spektiv sieht man Dinge, die für das bloße Auge nicht wahrnehmbar sind. Tolle und überraschende Beobachtungen in der Natur sind möglich. Schwarzstorch, Eisvogel und Habicht wirken so als würden sie vor einem stehen und das Beste: Sie hauen nicht ab. Ich würde das Kowa-Spektiv immer wieder kaufen! Es ist sein Geld wert.

Tras leer todo lo que he encontrado en comparativas y tests de este telescopio (tambien en alemán y inglés) y haber probado diferentes marcas, pedi este telescopio en amazon junto con el ocular 25-60 gran angular.Es increíble la calidad de imagen. Todo el que quiera lo mejor de lo mejor, acertara con este kowa.

Tough as nails and has stood up to everything I've thrown at it. On a recent birding trip with 30 others we all decided to compare scopes - our own little quality test. In terms of sharpness and color clarity it was picked by the majority as being best. Better than the Swarovski. Of course it wasn't unanimous but it is a LOT less expensive than the Swaro's. Get the cover for it if you buy one. If you do get the cover I would take a brown or black sharpy and color in the bright KOWA logo. It's less jarring that way.

Bright, sharp, no colour aberrations, nice and small, light, a pleasure to use.