Gosky Updated 20-60x80 Spotting Scope with Tripod and Carrying Bag and Smartphone Adapter - BAK4 Angled Telescope - Waterproof Scope for Target Shooting Hunting Bird Watching Wildlife Scenery

While not cheap, this instrument is a very impressive bit of kit. The optics are pin sharp, the device feels very well made and is nicely designed and finished. On these zoom minoculars, you often find the highest magnification settings give a dull and hazy image, but not so on this. Even using the 60x zoom, the image is very sharp indeed. Its also easy to focus, and simple to set up, and comes in a decent quality bag for easy transportation. The tripod is a simple but effective metal affair, which works well. The tripod mount is also a standard fixing, which means just about any tripod can be used, if you need something bigger or more substantial. I found the phone adapter to be a bit of a faff to set up properly, but can achieve impressive results. Comes with decent lense covers, a quality bad, a lense cleaning cloth, and phone adapter. I'm delighted with the quality of this item, and can heartily recommend it. A++ 👌

Easy to set-up and use. Nice to find the small tripod was made of metal and not plastic. The shudder on the video is passing, speeding lorrys at 3am. On the lowest zoom find your object, then twist the coller on the scope from 20x, upto 70x zoom, then make the object crisp and fully in focus by twisting another knob 10x. Finally zoom in on your phone to get a full screen image with no circle. The Mobile phone attachment is very useful. It is a frame that fits on your phone, adjustable to the lens position on your phone. Once on the phone put over eyepiece on the scope and twist the coller to lock your phone in place. This method is easy but could be redesigned to click on with a rubber sheild to illuminate light from the contact between phone and lense. This would be better - clearly. I however had no issue filming and photographing at night. It's a very good scope, the quality I can't fault. If you want to photograph moving objects like airplanes, this will be possible by calculating the speed and direction and setting the scope ahead of it and wait for it to enter view. I can see this can be used to photograph bird on nests. It's not something's you can quickly pull from your pocket point and click to capture a flying bird however as it does take a moment to set up. For the money I'm delighted. I've used it once so far. I went outside at 3am and stayed watching the Moon for 1.5 hours. Remember you get what you pay for. Get the highest zoom in your budget. I'm glad I purchased this. A van or shed is never big enough and a zoom is no different, no matter the power we will want more, so buy the most powerful zoom your budget allows.

Pretty impressive. A little fidly to mount phone but works well when sorted. Tripod could be slightly sturdier but suits a table top. Zoom is impressive I can't upload my pictures in the format I use but I am impressed.

Had this for a few weeks, feels very well built. Its easy to use on its table top tripod. The magnification is impressive at x60 maximum. I was drawn to the ability to attach my phone to take photos and it works pretty well although as others have said the clamp that holds it to the eyepiece is clever but a little fiddly to keep in position when moving the scope as with a large phone like my iphone 11 pro max. The weight of the phone causes the clamp to rotate if its moved away from it centre of gravity.

Brilliant bit of kit. I bought this for my son he wanted one for a while. It was purchased a while ago but as with all things I buy I use them vigorously before leaving a review so my review is honest. Well this spotting scope is great, we've used it for bird watching to target spotting with our guns it does a great job definitely worth a buy.

Used specifically and purchased for bird and nature observations. Very lightweight to carry and provides a super crisp, clear image with no distortion, very easy to get the image in perfect focus. Overall, the Gosky is a superb peice of equipment recommended definitely. I will be honest. The tripod is a table top and I would look at something better. The Phone mount, I don't like, it's plastic and it's not easy to line up with your phone camera, again worth looking at an upgrade.

I bought this as an archery scope (70m). It does the job well in good light, and is affordable compared to other scopes on the market. I think a more expensive scope will get you better night vision, but I was happy with this scope for my purposes.

Well made scope with clear image even on high magnification.