Yukon 6-100x100 Angled Eye Spotting Scope Kit

This is an excellent spotting scope! The optics are far better than expected. Images remain clear throughout all but the last 10% of zoom range and even then they are surprisingly good. I purchased the scope for viewing distant objects in the mountains and at the shore. I am able to read the tail numbers of aircraft parked on the runway of an airport that is nearly two miles away. At the shore, at maximum zoom, I could see ships on the horizon that were not visible at all with the naked eye. The images were clear enough to be able to identify the type of ship, some as small as 30' fishing boats. Being able to locate an object with the 6~25 power lens and then simply switch to the 25~100 power lens works great! There is a little bit of vertical adjustment that must be made when doing so but it is not a big problem.The camera adapter is another story. In order to attach the camera to the scope the eyepiece must be removed by unscrewing it from the body of the scope. I am familiar with cameras and optics enough to understand how the adapter should work but this was a bit of a struggle with my Canon SX230HS pocket camera. The instructions are weak at best. While I was eventually able to get a full screen image, the quality was pretty poor. I suspect that if the adapter is used with a full size DSLR camera that the attachment and adjustment would be easier and the results may be better. To be fair, I did not get to spend as much time with the adapter as I had hoped to because the first time that I attempted to remove the eyepiece to remove the camera adapter for the day, the eyepiece came apart in my hand and was damaged. The eyepiece is all plastic and must be handled very carefully. Fortunately the seller was able to send a replacement eyepiece in time to be used on our vacation, the primary reason that it was purchased. Perhaps a redesign of the camera adapter is in order, especially for those that want to use it with popular pocket cameras. An adapter for use with smartphone cameras would be a real plus. I will update my comments about the camera adapter if my future use of it proves to be more satisfactory than my initial work with it so please take my limited use with it into consideration. Hopefully other owners with more experience will provide additional information about their experience with it too.Overall I am very happy with the scope and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone that does not intend to use it for photography with pocket cameras. It does require a good stable tripod. My old tripod that I have used successfully for many years with 35mm film cameras was just too unstable for use above 50x or so. I purchased a Ravelli APGL3 (also on Amazon) and it worked out great for use with this scope. A true fluid head tripod for use with video cameras would be even better for fine vertical adjustments.

The Yukon 6-100x100 is better priced than equivalent spotting scopes, yet this item is not worth any price. The Yukon spotting scope has multiple problems. The most annoying is the view lense. One has to keep their head unnaturally still to keep the image in sight. Once the user achieves finding the image they need to use three controls to zoom and focus, two for the zoom options and then focus. With the weight of the front lense keeping the scope on target while selecting the zoom and focus, only exceptionally well disciplined people will be able continue to keep their head and the unit steady so as not to loose the image in the view lense.For those who visit the Yukon website, it shows some incredible capabilities of a spotting scope, but it can't be the the Yukon 6-100x100. There is no plausible way it can magnify as demonstrated. The Yukon company should be investigated for false advertising.

I spent over 3 months reading reviews and watching whatever video I could find on this scope. I had a budget of $500 and this by far came in with the best reviews of all the spotting scopes in that price range. I wanted to be able to view and make decisions on mule deer bucks from miles away. I am not disappointed, from my apartment here in Montana I have been watching bucks that are at least 5 miles away and can count points. There is heat rise distortion at the 100x zoom but from this area it's not enough to distort my view of there antlers. For the price it is well beyond what I was hoping for and it is light enough that I won't notice it in my pack while hunting!

I bought this spotting scope for looking at and taking pictures of birds. We have a lot of egrets nearby and I love watching them. I chose this spotting scope over others because of its large zooming range. I thought it would be great for quickly getting the bird into frame, centering it and then zooming in for a close look. And, this feature did live up to it's promise.However I had two major issues with the scope.First, when looking at a white bird, like an egret, there was a lot of purple haze (Chromatic Aberration). While this glowing fringing was merely distracting for viewing purposes, it made for truly awful photos when digiscoping.Secondly, I could not use much of the zoom range. The birds I was viewing were 375' away. If I tried to zoom any higher than about 30X-40X (only a third of the max 100X end of the range) I could not get the subject into focus - the focus knob would run out of range. To use more of the zoom range you have to look at birds much farther away. This kind of defeats the purpose of trying to get a larger image of a bird.I tried calling their tech support to see if there was something wrong with my scope. I suspected the focusing knob may have been installed incorrectly. I left a message and never got a call back. I scoured the internet for information about the minimum focal distance, but could not find any info.Finally, the focus was very coarse. Very minute adjustments of the focus knob with your finger would cause the focus to sweep from the foreground to the background of the subject. Focusing was doable, but difficult.I wound up returning the scope after sending a number of emails to their tech support.I ended up getting a Konuspot 100. It has a smaller zoom range: 20X-60X which makes it tougher to get the subject into view, but the entire zoom range is available at much closer distances. It also suffers less from chromatic aberration (though still present on bright objects). The focus adjustment is also much finer making it easier to use.