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DigiscopingUsing telescope with iPhone attached

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Posted by Eric: Sat Jul 16th, 2022 09:58

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My wife has ditched her Panasonic mainly due to its weight, a challenge to her arthritic hands, in favour of her iPhone 11.

Her close up and scenery shots are truly excellent quality, causing me to delegate general out and about photography to her!! (I even sold my Sony spare camera)

Of course the iphone lacks distance photography and so we have been experimenting with her iPhone connected to our Swarovski scope.

Very early days, with a lot of issues around custom setting retention (you need to stop the iphone auto focus and use the scope to focus …but if iPhone allowed to go to sleep it reverts to default camera settings :banghead:

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But thought I would share her literally first clips that we strung together…..

It’s also to some degree a hammer to crack an egg with close up birds. Even at the scopes widest setting it’s hard to follow and keep in frame frenetic feeding birds. And the last thing you want to do while filming is move the scope. But she will no doubt master the requirements ….then I can sell all my equipment and just watch the birds. :lol:

I did take the opportunity of a still shot while she was swearing at the iphone.

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Posted by Iain: Sat Jul 16th, 2022 19:32

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It's a hard art to master but some people have just got the knack. Nice juvenile GSW shot Eric.

Posted by Eric: Sat Jul 16th, 2022 20:52

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Iain wrote:
It's a hard art to master but some people have just got the knack. Nice juvenile Greater Spotted Woodpecker shot Eric. For the first attempt I think it was very good. There are several problems ….

1) Too many feeders in one spot.
Birds are spoilt for choice and you cannot guarantee which one they will go for. The only option apart from thinnning them out is to focus on one spot ….and wait.
2) Too high magnification for general sighting
Probably better to move further away to give wider field of view in first instance. Then zoom in when the bird less mobile.
3) iPhone goes to sleep losing settings
Easy fix….switch it to never off and hope battery lasts
4) Wobble when adjusting
Whether moving the head or touching the iPhone the camera wobble is excessive and shows up more on video of course. An expensive fluid head would be better…but I am from Yorkshire. ;-)

Jan has a remote trigger that starts/stops the iPhone via Bluetooth but adjusting and locking exposure requires touching the screen. So there’s always a wobble at the start of most clips that needs removing. Fortunately it settles down quite quickly. You just have to hope the bird hasn’t moved and requires more touching and wobbling.

It’s probably easier when taking photos rather than videos as you only need a fraction of a second in frame….not so videoing.

The G.S.W. has become a regular these last few weeks. Clearly fledged nearby and discovered our easy pickings. Long May he continue to visit.

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Posted by Eric: Sat Jul 16th, 2022 21:33

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Talking about juvenile birds.

Fortune favours the brave…..

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Posted by blackfox: Mon Jul 25th, 2022 09:10

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got all the gear have yet to use it in anger

Posted by Eric: Mon Jul 25th, 2022 15:51

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blackfox wrote:
got all the gear have yet to use it in anger You’ve got a good lightweight camera system, so I don’t see any advantage for you.

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