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Re: Digital Pics through spotting scope
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2008, 09:49:53 PM »
American Goldfinch taken with spotting scope.



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Re: Digital Pics through spotting scope
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2008, 01:59:32 PM »
digiscoping is the right name  for it. you can buy specific attachments or universal attachments to mount your camera to your scope...zoomed all the way in with the camera seems to work best.

i have taken pics through my bino's and my spotter with mediocre results similar to the pic's above.


I have seen in another place people call digiscoping through binoculars as BAD Photography (Binocular Assisted Digital Photography). lol

This is my setup with adapter when taking that picture above


The camera I used is Canon SD790IS with image stabilization. The tripod in the picture has been upgraded to Manfrotto 3130 micro fluid head with 055XB body.

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Re: Digital Pics through spotting scope
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2008, 08:12:35 PM »
I'd been wondering if it could be done as well. Nice to see it can be.

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Re: Digital Pics through spotting scope
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2008, 09:05:53 PM »
This is the picture I took on a red-winged blackbird. The scope was set at 20x zoom. I didn't zoom the camera. To prevent the vignette, the viewing circle should occupy 50% of camera field when camera is set at 1x zoom.


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Re: Digital Pics through spotting scope
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2008, 09:43:21 PM »
I have tried the following camera with my scopes, they all work well

Canon SD790IS, Casio Ex-Z80, Pentax Optio M50, Samsung L700.

The commonality of them is that they all have 3-4x optical zoom. I have tried some camera with 12x zoom and there is always vignetting at the corner.
It seems 3x/4x zoom is the magical number to get a good results from digiscoping.

 


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