Shoot through Binoculars?

Tiz possible witha a digital camera, as per digiscoping with a spotting or field scope but I'd not bother trying as the area of the image with the vignetting will be very small. Won't really work with a dslr.

Hope this a simple enough.
 
I tried it with a P&S a couple of summers ago and it worked quite well, got some shots that wouldn't have been possible without it. :)

It may be more difficult with an SLR though as the front element is a lot bigger.
 
It is possible but it is a pig to get the focus right.
 
So why can't we have such nice powerful glass in our lenses for the price of a pair of binoculars? My £100 Olympus binoculars bring things super close and Id have to pay £1,000s for a similar dslr lens. :shrug:
 
It is possible, someone already mentioned digiscoping. I know a chap at my local wildfowl reserve who shoots with a big Leica scope (something like 2000mm in our terms) with a Y adapter which connects a Nikon D2xs and a normal eyepiece. Vignetting is a real problem but also is the need for high ISO because scopes, while fine for the human eye, don't really allow enough light for photography, therefore your results will be ok, but quite noisy. Also keeping a rig like that stable for the shot is hard too.
 
It's sometimes easier and better to project bright images from the telescope/binos onto a screen and photograph that image. Especially if you try to photograph the Sun.

Do I need to warn about the dangers of looking at the Sun through a telescope eyepiece?


I didn't think so. :thumbs:

There are plenty of 'gadgets' to fit a camera to a telescope, for Astro-photography, so it is possble to use one as a lens. But for terrestrial work, I don't know if it would work. I think it should do. But I am a layman!

John
 
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