Digiscoping - photographing birds

Proud to know that a Malaysian .......the late Lawrence Poh was the pioneer in digiscoping in 1991! Stumble upon digiscoping photography when I joined http://groups.yahoo.com/group/birders . In a nutshell Laurence pioneered the technique now known as digiscoping which basically involves the attachment of a digital camera to the eyepiece of a spotting scope, using a homemade adapter or mount and shooting through the lens of the spotting scope. Of course people have been using attachment adapter for their slr camera which cost a bomb.

I may join the league of birders using digiscoping once they can have an adapter for my Minolta Dimage Hi7 whcih have a 49mm. At the moment only certain compact digital camera are being used until today. The common ones are Nikon 4500, 990 & 995 which have swivel LCD screen. You can go to http://www.digiscoped.com/DigiscopingInfo.html to read on the equipments available for your camera.

I got to be patient to get hold of a second-hand spotting scope. Must look for 77mm and above ie brighter images. the bigger the diameter of the front lens the better as more lights enters. Better still with ED/APO multicoated lens

Swarovski 80, 80HD scope use 80mm objective lenses. One of the most popular spotting scopes for digiscoping, due to the excellent 20-60x zoom eyepiece.

Will be in PD for the Raptor Watch event this 4th March 2006. Will have a first hand look into digiscoping there. If you miss it there will be next year.