Can I digiscope with the scope I have?

[James Armstrong]

Hi Andy and all other digiscopers,

As well as our binos my partner, Geraldine and I use a Nikon Spotting Scope 80A (Angled-body type) with a 27x Nikon Eyepiece. Can this be used for digiscoping and how should we go about it? If not what would you recommend as a good beginning digiscoping set-up? We'd be very grateful for your advice as we'd love to start contributing some pics to the site plus keep some more tangible souvenirs of our birding.

Many thanks

James

[Geoff Brown]

James,

Nikon produce a range of attachments especially for their scopes to be connected to (some) of their coolpix cameras. Contact Nikon or one of their authorised dealers who should be able to get a comprehensive brochure and also these fittings for you. I have all of the parts except one, for which I am still waiting, to connect a Coolpix 4500 to the Nikon RAII spotting scope. So far everything else screws together beautifully so when I get the missing part from Nikon, hopefully any day now, I should at last be able to do some serious 'scoping.

[Geraldine]

Many thanks Geoff! I'll get onto a Nikon dealer asap. Let us know how you get on with your digiscoping when you get sorted.
Best wishes