fuji S9500

[alwoodcock]

Does anyone know if the fuji S9500 is any good for digiscoping?

[border reiver]

Al
there is a guy in my local group who uses a Fuji similar to this not sure of the exact model but the eyepiece on his leica fits inside the cameras lens. He hand holds this set-up, some of the results are reasonable. Although of the results I have seen on this forum Fuji F30, Nikon coolpix 4500 Canon A95 all produce better quality images than I have seen from his set up.

Hope this is some help to you. It would be interesting to know if there is anyone out there who has experience of using some type of adaptor set up with the S9500.
John

[RAH]

Generally speaking, a camera with a large diameter lens, like all super-zooms including the S9500, are not very good for digiscoping, since their lenses are larger than the eyepiece - i.e. like shooting thru a hole.

[Neil]

Unfortunately not. You want a camera with a 3 or 4x zoom. The Fuji E900 and F30/31 are good digiscoping cameras. Neil.

[alwoodcock]

O.K. Thanks for info. I do have a fuji A340 compact camera which is more suitable.
I've just read about the F30 though and that sounds much better at 6 megapixels and if there's no shutter delay then it must be worth a try. Especially at £150ish.