[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
scopes and tripods
- To: CarolinaBirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: scopes and tripods
- From: Michal Skakuj <mskakuj@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 09:16:07 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
- User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
Hi all,
My two words about tripods. From my experience (and many of my friends)
you need rather heavy tripod to big scope size of Swarovski or Kowa (big
lens ones). This combo is much more stable (despite the head quality)
during ordinary observation (when even shaking hand matter) as well as
in some windy weather of seawatching. I know it is a few pound more to
carry but it is worthy. There is nothing more frustrating than looking
through very good but shaking scope. Better buy light and chip one, same
result. Big or small scope the tripod should be stable and rather heavy
as a good solid base for your scope vision.
Mike
--
************************************************
Michal Skakuj Ph.D.
4600 University Drive apt. 1312
Durham, NC 27707
phone: 919 402 9961
mobile phone: 919 599 3040