Hi everyone,
I started birding recently and since there are couple of nice lakes nearby with bird towers I decided to get an entry level spotting scope.
I got Bresser Corvette 20-60x80 which is really quite cheap and looked really professional to my untrained eye. I just took it out for a spin and had very difficult time identifying even seagull sized birds 250 yards away. The 20x magnefication is okay, but at that level I'd rather use my 8x25 binoculars. When I go to 60x it's just mostly shapes with no detail. The weather was partly cloudy and very nice for birding.
My question is should I just get something else? I know I haven't spent much, but I thought I could identify birds of medium size from 200-300 yards away with ease. I don't know if Bresser is considered poor quality. Is there something else at price range 200-400 dollars that could give me much better quality?
I started birding recently and since there are couple of nice lakes nearby with bird towers I decided to get an entry level spotting scope.
I got Bresser Corvette 20-60x80 which is really quite cheap and looked really professional to my untrained eye. I just took it out for a spin and had very difficult time identifying even seagull sized birds 250 yards away. The 20x magnefication is okay, but at that level I'd rather use my 8x25 binoculars. When I go to 60x it's just mostly shapes with no detail. The weather was partly cloudy and very nice for birding.
My question is should I just get something else? I know I haven't spent much, but I thought I could identify birds of medium size from 200-300 yards away with ease. I don't know if Bresser is considered poor quality. Is there something else at price range 200-400 dollars that could give me much better quality?