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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Purcell" data-source="post: 1408835" data-attributes="member: 68323">I presume your technique is like #2 here<a href="http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/binoculars/binhold.htm" target="_blank">http://www.astunit.com/tonkinsastro/binoculars/binhold.htm</a>Holding them at the eyepieces will make it worse even if it's supposed to be supporting against your forehead especially with eyeglasses.The best grip I find is different between roof and porro.Holding them further down the barrels with thumbs under the barrels (using were the indents are to be found with the fingers wrapped around the hinge I've found makes my roofs shake much less than the porros I have. My elbow come in a bit.The first image below I think of as the pinch grip. Some use it on roofs especially compacts. It's not very stable.The second attached image (from a US Army field manual with Tom of Finland doing the demonstration apparently! "Don't ask. Don't tell") is closest to my "best" grip except my thumbs go under the barrels (though the fingers at the side I suspect may be used by Kevin McConville and is an interesting trick). With this "grip" the bin is more held in place rather than "gripped" (so minimizing muscle tremors from the holding of the bins with the fingers. This grip also enables you to bring your arms in too.<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/44-18-1/appb.htm" target="_blank">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/44-18-1/appb.htm</a>And the third is similar as to how I place my fingers across the top. The bin rests on the top of my palms just about where the fingers join to the palm and is not "gripped" as resting on the palm with the fingers wrapped over the top.Of course you may be different. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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