Subject: [Tweeters] good spotting scope
Date: Jan 20 14:14:55 2006
From: Dennis Paulson - dennispaulson at comcast.net


Tweeters,

I'd like to put in a word for the new scope I just acquired, a Nikon
Fieldscope with 82 mm objective lens. I bought the 25-75x eyepiece
for it, and I got an adapter made by Nikon so I can hook up my Nikon
D70 digital single-lens reflex to it, and it's a fine combination for
digiscoping. Not cheap.....the adapter costs $300, but it's actually
a lens, with glass elements.

Nikon also makes a dedicated digiscoping setup using two different
Coolpix point-and-shoot digital cameras with short adapters that hook
the camera to the scope almost instantaneously. You can find info
about this on the web. With my setup, I have to remove the scope
eyepiece and screw in the adapter in its place, then connect my
camera sans lens to that. But even that takes less than a minute if I
have a bird in the scope I want to photograph. Often I just hook up
the camera to the scope and carry it around that way. It's a bit
cumbersome but the hundreds of digiscoped photos I have now tell me
it's well worth it. I carry around the eyepiece when I have the
camera on it, and I can switch back to the eyepiece pretty quickly
when I encounter birds I want to see better.

The scope itself is superb, very bright (82 mm lens) and sharp (Nikon
optics), with only a little fall-off of light up at the 75x end. All
the high-end scopes are so good they far exceed in quality what we
were used to a few decades ago.

Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382

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