Yes, this is a good question to get advice on. Instead of waiting, I'm doing an impulse buy after minor web research. The few opinions I saw was the pistol grips are not very useful. After that, the impression was it's up to preferences. I went ahead with a ball head. It'll be here later this week. If it doesn't work out, I can chalk it up as a learning experience.
Spotting scope with an angled viewpiece came today. Didn't realize there was a straight-through viewpiece for the model, which I ~theorectically~ prefer. But again, learning experience.
Anyone else with experiences with spotting scopes and tripods?
