Best phone scope for spotter?

[trophyhunt]

My cuz bought a new Swarovski atx 60 spotter, has a IPhone pro 12. I know nothing about phone scopes, he asked about digi?

[HUNT JR]

I've always used phone skope for digiscoping, that being said the new Ollin Company adapter looks excellent. It attaches using magnets and overall is much quicker to get set up right than the phoneskope is.

The only downside is it is quite a bit more expensive.

[pashok23]

https://magviewgear.com/

[trophyhunt]

I should have added, money is not a problem for him.

[trophyhunt]

https://magviewgear.com/

do you use this ?

[Wolfdog2314]

https://ollin.co/

^ I think think Ollin and the mag view and very similar.

I wish I would have gone with one of these two when i bought the Phone Skope last year. I will likely switch up to mag view or Ollin this year.

I like the phone skope enough. It does the job. Alignment with the camera into the spotting scope eye piece can be difficult at times. Takes some adjustment every time you put it on. When you zoom in to full power especially, you start to get the shade of the case in view.

My setup currently is iPhone 13 pro, phone skope, and Swarovski 20-60.

This pic was at like 1000+ yards


Zoomed in a bit more





You can see in this picture, is the struggle I have a lot while zooming in. Bottom left corner starts to get blacked out. I feel like the alignment of these magnetic phone scopes alleviate problems with aligning the scope with the phone.



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[The scout]

Olin, or outdoorsmans. Phone skope brand is garbage

[hunter399]

I just use some cheap one,that I got off Amazon.
Is it the greatest ,no
Does it work,yes it does.

[lewy]

Tagging, I’m also looking for a new one

[HUNT JR]

My problem with the magview one is that you would have to twist the eye piece of the spotter and change the eye relief in order to take vertical pictures. Could cause problems but i dont know for sure. The ollin would allow for vertical and horizontal without having to touch the eye piece. There are discount codes all over for it too.

I think code CHAG saves you 10 or 20% from ollin.

[Pathfinder101]

Looks like neither Olin or Magview make anything that will fit a Leupold Gold Ring spotter.  My only complaint with this scope (I've had it for over 10 years) is that there is really no good phone scope adapters for it.   

[pickardjw]

I have the MagView and like it. You lose the ability to surface charge because of the metal plate on the back of your phone/case but not an issue for me. I like that it acts as an eye piece cover as well. I don’t take vertical photos/video so that’s not an issue. Indexing is a little tough at first but you get the hang of it.

I was thinking about the Ollin but saw the Hushin guys marketing it and can’t stand them so…MagView was the better choice for me.

Pathfinder - have you looked into the PhoneCam (skopecam) universal? I almost went for that one. It might fit a gold ring. https://scopecamadapter.com/product/universal-phonecam-kit-includes-universal-adapter/

[Pathfinder101]

I have the MagView and like it. You lose the ability to surface charge because of the metal plate on the back of your phone/case but not an issue for me. I like that it acts as an eye piece cover as well. I don’t take vertical photos/video so that’s not an issue. Indexing is a little tough at first but you get the hang of it.

I was thinking about the Ollin but saw the Hushin guys marketing it and can’t stand them so…MagView was the better choice for me.

Pathfinder - have you looked into the PhoneCam (skopecam) universal? I almost went for that one. It might fit a gold ring. https://scopecamadapter.com/product/universal-phonecam-kit-includes-universal-adapter/

I watched the video.  Looks like a solid system, but I don't think it would work any better than any of the other ones I have tried.  The eyepiece on a Leuopold GR is just too skinny.  Doesn't provide enough of a base to hold the "clamp" part of the phone scope tight on the eyepiece.   

[kentrek]

The the swaro x eye peace the ollin adapter will add more vignette ? To the viewing experience which really annoyed me...the metal tines barrel adapter is still the go to

Once a company makes a very simple swaro eye cup replacement that is magnetic then I will switch...the magnets are pretty dang fast

[pashok23]

https://magviewgear.com/

do you use this ?

have on my binos and i love it.