Marketing hints: 50mm objectives on one inch tubes are pretty much a marketing gimmick, they work better on 30mm tubes....56mm obj beg for a 30mm tube, and usually have it.
What's your basis for this?
This is the optics forum. You can say anything you want, with minimum actual knowledge, and zero actual usage.
But basically I based it on who I saw buying them, and what they were buying.....3x9s predominantly...cranked up to 9x it gave you a whole 4mm exit pupil, really 'gathering' light there! Same thing your old 3x9x40 would give them at 8X.
But John Q. Public lined up to buy them, and the craze eventually died down....
However there is no place better to sell the " Bigger is Better" concept than in America!
As for the 30mm tubes,looking at exit pupils on them it was easily apparent they transmitted more light, though I never bought or used one personally. ( Since the garden variety 3x9x40 will allow you to shoot anything during legal hours...)
Now, Im gonna go ice down some bourbon, and attempt to wash my sins away!
