Spotting Scopes

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• No additional set-ups, rings, adaptor or attachments required
• Weighs 12.4oz/350g and has a height of 7.7 inches/195mm
• Compatible with all scopes, telescopes or monoculars with eyepiece size of 28mm to 45mm in diameter
• Compatible only with digital cameras or camcorders that is equipped with a tripod socket
• Extremely handy and convenient to use

Product Description
Digiscoping Adaptor is a nifty instrument that holds a digital camera to the eyepiece of a spotting scope, astronomical telescope or monocular to capture images viewed. Adapt to digitally capture images of terrestrial and celestial objects! Features a vertical and horizontal fine-tuning mechanism which allows precision alignment of camera lens and telescope eyepieces. Equipped with a 1/4×20 tripod socket to mount on photo/video tripod. Built of solid aluminum and ex… More >>

Barska Digiscoping Adaptor

Some Australian birds digiscoped and video digiscoped with a Swarovski STS80HD spotting scope, TLS800 digiscoping adapter, and a Canon EOS 7D. Black Swan (Cygnus atratus), Yellow Thornbill (Acanthiza nana); Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) By Johannes Nothdurfter

Who needs to spend hundreds on some crappy spotting scope and digiscoping kit when you can do more or less the same thing using a handycam with 40x zoom ratio.

Telescope Rail for stable digiscoping

Wildlife videographer, John Varty, has a passion for large cats and really wanted to do something for their conservation. Struggling to get stuff off the ground in Asia, he decided to buy a game farm in rural South Africa and has successfully released tigers to live and breed wild. The video has clips of three different tigers. The first two are males and the last (rusty) tiger is a female. www.jvbigcats.co.za In the video I am using a Swarovski STM80 HD scope, 25-50x eyepiece, UCA digiscoping adapter, and a Canon 1000D DSLR. Find out more about digiscoping at www.swarovskioptik.com/en/digiscoping

Video digiscoping with the Olivon T-84 EDO spotting scope and Praktica 12HD digital camera – coupled together with the Olivon Universal Camera Adapter. Recording at 1280×720. Click the view in HD option for best results. For more information about digiscoping – ww.digiscopediary.co.uk

Video digiscoping with the Praktica 15-45×60 spotting scope and Praktica 12-Z4 digital camera. Recording at 640×480.

• Digital camera base compatible with straight Swarovski spotting scopes
• Lets you quickly switch from observation to photography mode
• Compatible with most digital cameras with screw threads and 4x max optical zooms
• Simple up and down pivoting movement puts camera in front of scope
• Ideal for birdwatching, sports photography, and other distant subjects

Product Description
This model (DCB-S) works on straight spotting scope bodies only.Amazon.com Product Description
Almost anyone who observes an enthralling scene–especially after waiting patiently for a rare bird or fine stag–would love to capture the moment for eternity. Fortunately, Swarovski steps up to the plate with its line of digiscoping equipment, which lets you connect your digital camera to any of the company’s spotting scopes to take photos from great distances-… More >>

Swarovski Optiks DCB-S Digital Camera Base DCB Digiscoping Accessory System for Straight Swarovski Spotting Scopes

Essentially, ISO as a camera function describes how sensitive the sensor is to the light that it receives. This means that a high ISO number means that the sensor very quickly gathers information (ie allows me to use a fast shutter speed) but because the picture information is gathered so quickly, the smooth quality of the photo is “penalised”, introducing more grain/noise in to the photo. At the opposite extreme, a low ISO gives you great images with very little noise, but you will only have slower shutter speeds at your disposal. Every camera handles ISO and noise slightly differently, but let’s split them generally in to the average compact cameras that are used for digiscoping and DSLRs. ISO 800 on Canon A590IS. faster shutter speed from the high ISO made this shot possible, despite being at night. Had to sacrifice image quality through noise. Compact digital cameras for digiscoping: With, by way way of example, a Nikon P6000 or P5100 (both very common digiscoping cameras), using the minimum ISO of 64 gives nice images, but anything above 200 tends to bring a lot of noise in to the images and is then only really interesting for key rare-bird identification photos when nothing else will work. DSLRs for digiscoping: Entry level DSLRs like the Canon 1000D or Nikon D3000 have effective ISOs going up to 1600. This range is fairly usable, and for various reasons, when using one of these cameras, I would normally start digiscoping with an ISO1600 and drop it down to ISO800 …

Step by step guide on how easy it is to connect an SLR camera to a Celestron Ultima Spotter