Hi Seth, I've got a pair of the old Orion Japanese 20x80's (they're probably Vixens under the skin) that weigh about 5 pounds. They're glorious binoculars, but weigh in at probably double the low-priced binos currently on the market. My parallelogram is rated at 5 pounds, but can't really come close the carrying the load. As a result, I don't take the binos out very often. Parallelograms have a number of problems. Because you've got a lot of weight dangling out on long levers, it can take one quite a while to settle down. The claim that's made for them is that they're great for star parties. I dispute that. Yes, they stay reasonably on target as you raise/lower the arm. But that weight hanging out 3-4 feet in the dark is really dangerous when somebody's little brat (sorry, I meant to say little darling) comes charging through and runs in to it. The kid gets an concussion and the observer gets a broken nose. And besides, the interocular adjustment needs to be changed when the binos go to somebody else anyway. So the only real advantage to a parallelogram is that you can more easily see things near the zenith from a lawn chair. Having said that, something like this might do the trick. http://www.bigbinoculars.com/tmount.htm I'll bet you Chuck weighs in on this one. I think he's solved this problem for himself in a typically clever way. Michael

I own a pair of Celestron 25x100's but I never use the silly things because not even my heaviest-duty camera tripod can keep them steady.