[obol] digiscoping equipment

[Steve Berliner]

    To Margaret who asked and anyone else who wants to "digiscope,"
There are a number of ways to go about finding the right equipment to digiscope with.  I'm not going to write a tutorial on eqpt. here.  If you're seriously interested, then go to www.birdforum.net , do the quick free registration, and then go to the Forums menu and scroll down to "Andy Bright's Digiscoping Forum."  Within this section you will find threads on all the newest suitable cameras and a great deal on camera mounts.  Any scope can be digiscoped with!  I just helped my cousin with a mount and lessons on his B&L Discoverer, and to my amazement, his shots in the first 15 min. of waterfowl looked very nice.
    The best scopes for birding are the best scopes for photos (this means best glass and all that.)  In general, when I buy a new camera, I look at those forums first for discussion of its results.  This has saved me from bad choices more than once.  A camera's specs may sound perfect for digiscoping, but in reality the internal optics make it problematic.  Whenever possible take your scope to the camera store and try the cameras (both Circuit City and Camera World were fine with that for me.)
     We sell a mount I designed at www.simplicitytool.com, Swarovski makes their own, as do Zeiss, and Nikon.  Additionally you can purchase a Kowa TD-1 integrated scope with camera.  I do not recommend it.  My latest camera the Fuji F30 is good, but so are many others.  My galleries at: http://home.earthlink.net/~s.berliner/ show photos (the latest, Allen's Hummingbird from so.cal.)  Greg Gillson's site at: www.thebirdguide.com has a nice digiscoping and links section as well.  Hopes this helps all readers interested.


Steve Berliner
forcreeks at earthlink.net
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