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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmepler" data-source="post: 1459608" data-attributes="member: 59160">stbear,What many people don't think of doing with an angled scope when viewing from a vehicle is precisely what you describe doing with your scope to allow your wife to view comfortably.If you rotate the eyepiece toward you it will allow you to look straight out of your vehicle's window without needing to turn your head the full 90 degrees.  This actually makes the angled scope more comfortable to use than a straight scope.I personally use a straight scope, almost exclusively from a tripod.  My first scope was a straight model and I guess I got used to it.I find that for the majority of my viewing I am more comfortable with a straight scope.  When birds are high in trees or flying overhead an angled scope would be nice, but that is a small percentage of my viewing.If I am somewhere that there may be other people viewing with my scope I will set my tripod with the legs not fully extended and raise the center column to bring it to a comfortable level for me.  Then if I want to lower it to allow someone to look through it I need only drop the center column.  Doing this doesn't change the view and allows them a comfortable look.Sometimes I will attach my digital camera to let a large group view the image on the camera's display.  This also is a good way to protect expensive optics from the accidental smudges that surely come with many viewers, particularly inexperienced ones.Mike</blockquote>

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