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Originally Posted by acropolite
If you can afford a few extra dollars buy a Manfrotto, it will double for photography and you'll never regret it.
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One advantage of the Manfrottos is that they have short, stubby handles and don't get in the way so much. However, you can mount binoculars 'back-to-front' on a standard tripod so the pan/tilt handle is pointing away from you. I've always found this arrangement to be relatively easy to use.
The big problem is of course trying to see higher than 45deg. altitude. I'm still wondering what to do about this myself - a home-made parallelogram device is probably the way to go.