Post by: Rainier10 on December 04, 2020, 02:34:34 PM
You can buy this off of Camofire from time to time. I bought mine off of amazon. Pretty cheap and super easy to use. You have to download the app onto you phone.
You get your spotter on your target, lock it down in place really good and then slip this camera over the eyepiece. There is an adjustment to turn and it tightens down on your eyepiece holding it in place. Now whatever you see in the spotter shows up on your phone. From the app there is an icon for taking photos, click and it takes a photo. There is also an icon for video, click it and it starts to video. I have an iphone and it saves the photos and videos to the gallery in the app but also to your phone photos at the same time.
The pictures are as clear as the focus of your spotter. If your spotter is out of focus the photos will be too.
The two problems I had we putting the camera on the eyepiece. Each time when I would tighten it down I would lose my target even if I had the spotter locked down tight.
The other issue was then finding said target again because you can't look through the camera. What we found worked best was to hold your phone up to the spotter and then move the spotter while watching the image on your phone. Having the phone move in unison with the spotter made this much easier than holding the phone off to the side and try to move spotter and watch phone at the same time.
I would go into my photos afterwards and zoom in and save the zoomed in pic. I will post some app photos and then zoomed in from the app photos in a minute.
I would say that it was definitely worth the money and fun to use.
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Post by: follow maggie on December 06, 2020, 06:57:40 AM
Post by: Rainier10 on December 06, 2020, 09:19:02 AM
I would say with the new phoneskopes they are comparable. The one advantage that the SME spot shot does have is you can use it with multiple phones, you just have to download the app.
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Post by: Stein on December 06, 2020, 10:30:46 AM
How does the app work, can you shoot stills and video, just video or what?
In addition to hunting, looks like it would be great at the range, I can link it to my Kindle and have it where I can see the screen from my rifle instead of going back and forth between my rifle and spotter to see hits.
Post by: Rainier10 on December 06, 2020, 10:53:22 AM
You can take stills or video
This would be great at the range.