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Originally Posted by janoskiss
Thanks DC. And  to IIS.
Those "Unimounts" that you can sit/lie under look great. I see they have Sirius Optics in QLD listed on the Dealers page. (although there is nothing about it on the SO website.) |
Thanks. IIS is an excellent site! (found thanks to Google).
You'd think something as heavy as a bino-mount would be impossibly expensive to get here from the US, but my Uni-star (for the monster binocs) wasn't that bad by air freight (US$60). The overall cost for something from UA equivalent to the Bintel "pantograph" bino-mount unit might be roughly the same. But making one yourself is much the cheapest option.
Also, something to stick the mount on (ie a tripod) can be quite expensive for big binocs. I already had the Chinese tripod that came with the monster binocs. Frankly it's not quite up to the job (it lurches when you slew the binocs rapidly in azimuth!) and one of these days (when funds permit) I might buy the big wooden Surveyor tripod that Larry at UA recommends for the big binocs.
The Bintel pantograph used to be sold w/o a tripod and a medium size Manfrotto unit works well. It appears they're only available with tripod now (
http://www.bintel.com.au/BintelBinomount.html )
DN