Blue72
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My daughter has never heard of NPA, but she does know how to enjoy a relaxed view through my scope
That’s a very cute pic of your daughter
My daughter has never heard of NPA, but she does know how to enjoy a relaxed view through my scope
Thanks Here is another one, from a year ago or so. Also fitting to this discussion...
https://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=653130&d=1517825796
So you are saying with a straight scope it would be more comfortable? I would think the tripod would have to be raised quite a bit and she would have to have her neck tilted back quite a ways to be able to see the same area. Try tilting your head back for a long time once. BTW I do have straight and angled spotters.
dalat that is very nice you take your daughter with you!!
What I am saying is that his daughters body position and scope position adjustments could be better optimized for better views. Even with the angled scope
Yes, right, for a longer view I would better raise the column a bit. We were following a wallcreeper in the rock above, which was moving around quickly. So I was squatting and following the bird with the scope, up and down with the inclination, and then get the girl quickly on the scope when the bird was resting a moment. Not much time to ajust the column. Just how normal birding works
By the way, the zip tie is very helpful in this situation to get the small bird on the rock in the scope.
Can never find anything in the sky with such things myself.
Thanks Here is another one, from a year ago or so. Also fitting to this discussion...
https://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=653130&d=1517825796
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That's the same advantage that, at a larger scale, makes sharing an angled scope between people of different heights so convenient ... at the small scale, you're basically sharing the scope with subtle variations of yourself ;-)
Regards,
Henning
Unfortunately, that does not work for me at all. I then get to see the object through the near-adjusted part of my eyeglasses, and I can't just remove them for that would make things worse.
I actually wonder how many of those advocating angled scopes need to use their scopes with varifocals.
...it's clear that varifocals can't give you full sharpness across the field (true for any scope or other optics type), so I recently bought a pair of monofocals explicitely for birding.
These work fine, except that now I'm struggling when trying to use the smartphone to record observations on ornitho.de while still in the field ...
For birding, I have bifocals with the split set lower than usual. The top works fine for distant views and for bins and scope. The little inset lets me see close things, like phone, map, notes.
--AP
For birding, I have bifocals with the split set lower than usual. The top works fine for distant views and for bins and scope. The little inset lets me see close things, like phone, map, notes.
--AP
Unfortunately, that does not work for me at all. I then get to see the object through the near-adjusted part of my eyeglasses, and I can't just remove them for that would make things worse.
I actually wonder how many of those advocating angled scopes need to use their scopes with varifocals.