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I've personally had my S2 side by side with the Kowa 884 Prominar, one of the best spotters on the planet. I kept the S2, sold the 884....it's that good.

Here's what Outdoor life said about it in 2013...

http://www.petersenshunting.com/featured/bes-spotting-scopes-of-2013/

Using the 30–60X WA EP, the field 
of view was incredible with virtually undetectable color fringing. This is a damn fine scope. The image is expansive. Controls are easy to manipulate but a bit stiff when fine-tuning.

The MeoStar offers a very sharp, crisp image with a hint of warm tint. In fact, this scope posted near-perfect scores during the two 100-yard resolution tests. Edge sharpness was excellent, but missed perfection due to curvature at the very edge of the field. Normally, a wide-angle EP gives up eye relief, but not with this one. Four-eyed observers rejoice.

Color fidelity was true and even better than the more expensive Nikon EDG. The friction in the adjustment wheel is perfect, and the MeoStar offers a perfect weight balance, which translates to minimal 
image distortion when panning, focusing, or tracking moving objects.

At 46X, we observed reduced brightness, but sharpness remained excellent through 58X. It was no problem reading signage placed at one mile. In fact, it bested the Leica in this aspect of our comparison. The Meopta is an incredible optic. It’s so good some of our testers almost preferred the Meopta to the mighty Swarovski. That says a lot.

Priced at $2,200—less than Leupold’s GR—the MeoStar earns our Best Buy Award for offering an image that rivals scopes costing twice as much.

SCORE: 93
Price: $2,200

Great video, thanks for sharing it. How far were the deer in the video?

I have the Meopta S2 spotter and have the 30-60WA and the 20-70 eyepieces. I use the WA eyepiece more and I get some amazing digiscope video through it

I have the S2 with the 20-70x. I experience no tunneling at all on any power. As you're well aware, mirage, heat waves, etc are a killer for long range spotting, and you'll fight it with this scope too, but that's obviously no fault of the optics. This is world class stuff that takes a back seat to nothing at any price, with the very small exception of the modular Swaro spotters that sell for $4k +. Yes, the 70x is usable in some limited situations, once again whe the atmosphere is cooperating. Around here, about 15% of the time.

Good luck, you chose well.