Bird Watching Binoculars & Field Guides : Picking A Spotting Scope For Bird Watching
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at
10:09 pm
When buying a spotting scope for bird watching, look closely at the zoom factors on the eyepiece. Learn how to pick a spotting scope in this free bird watching video about how to begin to bird watc...
US $3.50
spotting scopes are too big and expensive. Not all practical to carry around when trekking. A small binoculars is much better.
Yep I thought this too until I saw my first Golden Eagle feeding a chick in the nest from several hundred yards away magnified at 60x – my 8×32 binoculars could not even find the vicinity on the mountain!
Spotting scopes are also bad for eyesight and will cause headache.Best scenario is a camera.
Have you looked through a high quality scope? Have you used a top notch piece of kit such as Leica, Swarovski, Nikon, Zeiss, Kowa etc. – if you did you will KNOW it is no different than looking through a camera and large lens. Except the scope has anything up to 10x more reach and much better stability when tripod mounted. Check out articles on eye relief if headaches are a problem. I have both scopes and SLR kit up to 600mm lenses. Scopes win hands down.
Not for me, i have done alot trekking and even having a light backpack can be a real nuisance. Expensive, heavy spotting scope? No way
Fair comment, but I find using a Scopac and evenly distributing the weight leaves both hands free for binoculars etc. I guess it depends on whether the primary aim is birding or photography lol. I know I’d never have seen those eagles with a camera and big lens. I’d love to see some comparison photographs of cropped DSLR v digiscoped though. Would be interesting. We’ll agree to disagree my friend
 I have both and depending on my needs is what goes out with me – it’s all good, as they say.
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It depends on how well you have adjusted the binoculars to the width of your eyes. If they are correctly adjusted, you will see one big circle. If not, you will see two overlapping circles. If you do see two overlapping circles then you should adjust the spacing between the eyepieces so that you do see one big circle.
make sure its not tooo close to you or humans, and high up so they feel less scared and trapped if they go to it