My wife and I use straight 60x 80mm scopes, hers is a Vortex Optics Viper HD and mine is a Clestron Ultima 80 with a BAADER PLANETARIUM Hyperion zoom 8-24 mark III eyepiece. I found my Celestron lacking after looking through my wifes Viper with the ED glass so I added the BADDER eyepiece to mine which made a world of difference putting my scope on par with hers. We found the angled scopes did not work for us because looking in a close tree the angle was good but the field of view was limited so our 10x42 and 12x42 binos worked just fine for that. Another reason for straight, for us, is that we scope more than 75% of the time with car window mounts and the angled scope will not work for that.
Melissa and Wade From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Saracino Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 8:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Spotting scope question Hi folks. I'm in the market for a relatively inexpensive (but halfway decent)spotting scope (straight barrel), and am wondering if anyone out there can recommend one. Thank you. Pete Sar -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> The Mail Archive <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> Surfbirds <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> ! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
