Back to digiscoping

[GMS]

A few years back I sold my old Coolpix 4500 to help finance my first DSLR and 100-400 lens. Whilst I never go out birding without this combo there are certain situations where I wish I still had my digiscoping gear. The last one was at the Snowy Owl in Belgium. Great scope views, too far away for the 100-400 lens even with a converter. With the Coolpix I could have got good pics.

My question is if there is another small digital camera with non-extending lens and a thread for stepup/down rings (other than the 4500 or older Nikon models )? That's how I used to attach the coolpix to my scope.

any help would be much appreciated.

[Robert L Jarvis]

As far as I am aware the simple answer is no. I cannot recall any new cameras like that which would be suitable for digiscoping. You may if you particularly want that feature in a camera get a S/H 4500 or Contax.

[Neil]

A few years back I sold my old Coolpix 4500 to help finance my first DSLR and 100-400 lens. Whilst I never go out birding without this combo there are certain situations where I wish I still had my digiscoping gear. The last one was at the Snowy Owl in Belgium. Great scope views, too far away for the 100-400 lens even with a converter. With the Coolpix I could have got good pics.

My question is if there is another small digital camera with non-extending lens and a thread for stepup/down rings (other than the 4500 or older Nikon models )? That's how I used to attach the coolpix to my scope.

any help would be much appreciated.

Unfortunately no direct replacement for the 4500 but you'll find the newer Nikon Coolpixes suitable for digiscoping eg the P5100 . You can always screw a filter to the front of it's adapter and the lens would be internal.
Neil.