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Laurie's Birds
Topic Started: Jun 8 2016, 07:58 AM (664 Views)
Laurie P
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Pied Wagtail.

Photo taken with my digiscope set-up in October 2011 - Nikon D60 DSLR camera body attached to a Nikon Fieldscope ED82.

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Eric Hardy
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Terrific shot, Laurie. Please remind me what a digiscope is
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Laurie P
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EricEHardy
Jun 8 2016, 02:44 PM
Terrific shot, Laurie. Please remind me what a digiscope is
Digiscoping is a term applied to digital photography using a Fieldscope (telescope if you like.)

You start off with your camera body, with lens removed, and your fieldscope. With an appropriate adaptor, you screw one end of the adaptor into the digiscope and the other end is screwed to your camera body. This in effect makes it like a giant macro lens.

Basically you treat it the same way as macro photography. Camera mounted on a tripod and a remote shutter release. I've tried it without the remote release and I got blurred results due to the high magnification.

I'm considering doing a separate topic on it, showing the set-up required, but as you asked Eric I'm just giving a basic explanation here :Cool:
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Eric Hardy
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I am trying to think back, Laurie. Was it a couple called Lynn and Malcolm from a previous existence of ours, well Malcolm in particular who used something like your Digiscope for bird photography or is my memory playing tricks?

A seperate topic on the subject would be very interesting and instructive.
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JennyWren
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Basic explanation :thud: ......... ;)

I once came across some bird watchers , Laurie . They were peering at a black-tailed godwit through their various scopes and cameras . One chap offered to screw my little camera onto the end of his .. and hey presto , i got a reasonable close up :cool2:

That's a super photo of the pied-wagtail :point:
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Laurie P
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EricEHardy
Jun 8 2016, 04:26 PM
I am trying to think back, Laurie. Was it a couple called Lynn and Malcolm from a previous existence of ours, well Malcolm in particular who used something like your Digiscope for bird photography or is my memory playing tricks?

A seperate topic on the subject would be very interesting and instructive.
Correct Eric. It was Malcolm who was well into digiscoping.
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Laurie P
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JennyWren
Jun 8 2016, 04:45 PM
Basic explanation :thud: ......... ;)

I once came across some bird watchers , Laurie . They were peering at a black-tailed godwit through their various scopes and cameras . One chap offered to screw my little camera onto the end of his .. and hey presto , i got a reasonable close up :cool2:

That's a super photo of the pied-wagtail :point:
Thank you Jen.

That was your first experience of digiscoping. Although you may not have heard them use that particular terminology, that is what happens.

Once I get that topic going on digiscoping then I hope it will make a bit more sense :scope:

I'll include some photos to show how all the elements are connected :nod:
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Davebutterflyman
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That's a cracking shot Laurie.

I have yet to try digiscoping but i have one of the main elements required, a Leica APO Televid 77 Spotting scope so it will be something for me to look into.
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Laurie P
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Dave, if you're confident at doing macro photography then I think you should be able to master digiscoping, which I think is a very similar process.

And as you've already got one of the most expensive pieces of the kit required, you're pretty much there :yep:

The greatest benefit of digiscoping is giving you the ability to photograph distant subjects in greater detail.

The Pied Wagtail shot I got was about 100 feet away. I had to greatly reduce the image for the Forum, but the detail was much better full size.

It's a subject worth looking into Dave :nod:
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Davebutterflyman
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Thanks for that Laurie and i'll definitely look into it.
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Eric Hardy
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Thank you Laurie, in spite of the impressive results I think I will stick to my Canon telephoto lens
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Laurie P
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It's not for everyone Eric.

I haven't done any digiscoping for a while now, but I don't do as much birdwatching as I used to either, which is where I was seeing the greatest benefit.

Like you, I prefer to use my telephoto lens. For the majority of the photography I'm now doing that method is quicker to use and easier to handle.

Dave seems interested so we'll see if he decides to go for it :scope2: :pic:
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That's a :greatpic: of the Pied wagtail Laurie :cool1:
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Laurie P
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Thank you Julie.
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