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Scope-carrying Gear turns heads at Quebec bird conference
Does carrying a heavy spotting scope around on an excursion cause pain to your shoulder? There are special backpack systems that exist to which one can attach a scope, but because of the inconvenience of removing the backpack, and setting up the scope and tripod, this is not always a practical solution. Because of the time involved in getting a scope from one’s back to the ground and set up, many opportunities for observation are missed as the bird may fly out of sight.
In Trois-Rivières, Quebec, the Duckbill company took up the challenge of finding a solution to the problem of transporting a heavy spotting scope or camera in the field experienced by Alain Goulet, of Le Centre de Conservation de la Faune Ailée, a store in the Montreal area that specializes in the field of ornithology.
Mr. Goulet talked with Duckbill about the subject, and, on October 25, at the 3rd Congress of amateur ornithologists of Quebec, held in Granby, Quebec, he presented the result of their collaboration. The Heavey Optics Carrying Platform was unanimously regarded as brilliant by the participants who passed in front of his stand.
Even though the carrying platform is not in stores yet, Mr. Goulet received many orders, in his opinion enough that Duckbill will launch manufacture immediately.
The solution is innovative. It acts as a harness made up of a belt and a strap with passes diagonally across the chest and which has an easy-access fastener at hip level. Thus, the weight of the scope is distributed between the shoulder and the belt and makes it comfortable to transport the tripod and scope even with the tripod stretched to its maximum.
With the spotting scope docked to the platform, the two hands remain free. That facilitates the use of binoculars or a camera, which can be carried either around the neck or docked to the carrying platform.
Visit the website of Le Centre de Conservation de la Faune Ailée -
English: http://www.ccfa-montreal.com/en_new/
French: http://www.ccfa-montreal.com/
