Another Digiscoping Bird Site

[mjs1973]

Here is a link to a site that features some really nice digiscoped bird shots, along with some interesting articles about birds. This guy is from Wisconsin and lives about an hour or so from me. I have never met him, but another photog friend of mine sent me the link, and I thought the folks here would enjoy it as well.

http://www.birddigiscoping.com/index.html

[mjs1973]

I guess I spoke too soon. I went looking for the Snowy Owl that Mike McDowell posted on his site, and he was there. I talked to him for a bit, and he was kind enough to let me look thru his spotting scope (no camera attached). I knew those things were powerful, but not THAT powerful!!! We were standing on top of a hill, about a half mile away from a Snowy Owl, sitting on top of a silo. (see bird ID thread) I bet if he had his camera set up, he would have been able to fill most of the frame with that bird, from that distance. I was truely impressed.

Those digiscopers are onto something. Much more bang for your buck when it comes to zooming in on wildlife.

[paulnj]

Ah, but most digiscopers DO NOT take images at 60x on the scope and get images anywhere near as clear as that image is.Most use a 20x, 32x, 40x FIXED eyepiece to digiscope seriously. But, yes digiscoping is a handy tool !

Not to sound like a one upper but , My brother owns that very swarovski scope and The pentax 80mm scope is so very close in quality until twilight, that I'd save that extra $1000 the current swarovski costs for DSLR/50F1.4 , an adapter , a bogen 501 head and wooden legs ;)

[mjs1973]

Ah, but most digiscopers DO NOT take images at 60x on the scope and get images anywhere near as clear as that image is.Most use a 20x, 32x, 40x FIXED eyepiece to digiscope seriously.

You are absolutely correct. I read on his site that almost all of his photos are taken at 20x, and that a fixed eyepiece would be a little sharper. Towards the bottom of this page is what he had to say about it.