Hi Henning,
I'm glad you enjoyed.
No, besides the natural felling that is easier to find a bird with a straight scope, straight scopes are more practical for my birding because:
1 - I spend many hours in hides with high windows so with an angled scope I would had to stay up and not seated, and even in some hides, an angled scope had to be turned 90º for one side and I'm 178cm tall, so not too short...;
2- I do down-hill birding often also - one wetland have a birding point in a cliff, several tens of meters up from the surface – with an angled scope the neck would suffer. Angled scopes are better to look up, like raptors soaring.
After posting this thread I contacted Baader to ask if they had plans to do an adapter for using 1.25” astro eps with the Harpia. They told me that until now no one asked for such adapter… For those that don’t know, Baader produce such adapter for the Diascope that is much better and less expensive than the one produced by Zeiss. So those owners that are interested in increasing or reducing the magnifications of their Harpia, increasing or not AFOVs, should send an e-mail to Baader to ask for it – the more requests arrive to them,the more probable they will release it and sooner …
