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PATRICK LENIHAN
Sunday 31st December 2006, 21:18
Dear Friends,

I recently put the camera lens (zoomed) of a Motorola E770v mobile telephone against the 60X (zoom) eyepiece of a Kowa 824 and was greatly surprised by the quality of the photo as viewed on the telephone.

For bird identification, compared to using the Coolpix 4500, it was simplicity personified. The disadvantage was of course the low resolution but, with the introduction of high resolution mobiles such as the Nokia 93, I wonder if mobilescoping will replace digiscoping, at least, for identification purposes.

Any views, or comments?

Regards
P

delia todd
Sunday 31st December 2006, 21:28
Hi Patrick and welcome to Bird Forum from all the Staff and Moderators

You may get better feed-back on your question in the Digiscoping forum (http://www.birdforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=243) where more people are likely to see it. There's certainly been times when I wished I had a mobile that took photos and, like you, think the quality will improve with time.

Happy New Year to you

D

Joe Ray
Sunday 31st December 2006, 21:29
Hi Patrick, and a warm welcome to Birdforum! I've tried phonescoping with a Motorola V235, but without success.
Happy New Year!

John N
Sunday 31st December 2006, 22:15
Hi Patrick, welcome to Birdforum.Enjoy yourself here.

Mabel
Sunday 31st December 2006, 22:17
Interesting thread, Patrick. Welcome!

Wiktoria
Sunday 31st December 2006, 23:46
Welcome Patrick and the Happy New Year!

Mark Bruce
Monday 1st January 2007, 02:21
Hi Patrick, a warm welcome and good to have you with us :t: !

Fritz73
Monday 1st January 2007, 15:26
Hola Patrick! :D

timeshadowed
Monday 1st January 2007, 16:00
Welcome to BirdForum, Patrick! Looking forward to reading your future posts here on BF.

jcwings
Monday 1st January 2007, 20:38
Check out these Phonescoping sites:

http://www.surfbirds.com/Features/phonescoping/phonescoping1204.html
http://koti.welho.com/tlaurins/phonescoping/