Ollin digiscope

[baker5150]

My buddy runs an Ollin and I run a Scopecam.

Scopecam doesn't require a giant phone case or adapter, and it can be thrown on any scope, bino, or spotter at any time.  But it's bulky and a little finicky to set up the first time.

The Ollin is a better, more solid system IMO, but not universal in the field.  Can't toss it on your buddies spotter if he doesn't have the adapter. 

[6haase6]

Did a quick measurement of my scope and got in touch with them through instagram and email, they gave me to options and what they thought I should do. If their suggestion doesn’t work they said they would switch out to the bigger size no problem.

[bearpaw]

Anybody on here use the Ollin system? Have been looking into it but I run a Nikon spotter and they don’t list any Nikon optics. Have a message out to them to of their eye pieces will work for me or if I’m out of luck. Looks like a pretty slick system, anybody got any input on it?

I bought the Ollin system this spring, I love it. It works great, I read lots of reviews saying it's the quickest system, after buying it I agree, but they do not have eyepieces for every optic yet. I run a Leopold Gold Ring Spotter, they do not have an eyepiece listed so I messaged them and asked if they would be offering an eye piece for the gold ring in the future?

In a couple days they replied back that they were testing an eye piece for gold ring spotters and it would likely be available by August. I went ahead and got the eye piece for my 15X Swarovskis and have been using it for now, I'm very pleased. At first I thought the phone case would be a hassle buy I quickly got used to the shape.

It's very quick to deploy when you want close up pictures. One thing I noticed, far away photos seem to be faded out some, they need to be sharpened and color saturation increased. This photo the bird was about 200 yards away, this photo has not been retouched yet.

[bearpaw]

Same photo, cropped, centered, sharpened, increased color saturation

[bearpaw]

This photo was at about 70 yards, not nearly as washed out looking, this is the original taken in early morning before sunrise. I'm using an iphone 11, there are phones that take a lot better photos out there now.