Binocular view problem?

[panthercules]

Been reading the forums here for a couple of weeks waiting for my copy to get here - seen lots of posts about various bugs, problems and quirks, but don't remember seeing any mention of the problem I ran into as soon as I fired up my copy this afternoon. Sorry if this has been posted before and I just missed it.

Anyway, as you can see from the screenshot below, when I try to use the binoculars on the bridge both my watch crew and the superstructure get in my way, instead of going invisible like they did in SH3:



I read through the manual, and didn't see anything about this being some sort of feature you could turn on or off, but maybe I missed something. Obviously, it's impossible to scan the horizon for ships or the sky for planes with this going on - anybody got any idea what could be causing this or how to fix it?

Running US DVD version patched to 1.1, with the following mods:

360 degree bearing plotter Imperial
Captain Midnights CBS NEWS Sound Mod
Dark Sil tga's for SH4
GreenLamp
Run Silent Run Deep Sound MOD.SPAX
SH4 Realistic Battery Life
Smaller_Moon_Sun_v1
ParaB's tweaked air strikes
Real Medals v1.01

Thanks for any help you can give - game looks interesting so far - still tweaking graphics settings and stuff to find the best compromise but need to sort this binocular view issue for sure before doing any patrols.