olympus mju 1000 for digiscoping?

[cpt_Bubba]

Hello,
i'm looking for a new digiscoping camera and i was considering the sony N2 or the olympus mju 1000.

The sony n2 appears to work great but i hate that sony memorystick. So the olympus mju 1000 seems to be a very good camera with an easyrange up to 6400 when using 3 megapixel of the 10 megapixel sensor.

But is this one fit for digiscoping?
I know that the mju 800 works great but this one has a infrared sensor and the mju 1000 hasnt.

if someone has the possibility of testing this camera, let me know the results plz and if possible with sample pics

thx forumreaders

[Neil]

What features of the mju 1000 interest you as a digiscoping camera? Neil.

[Feathered one]

Can you say what you don't like about the Sony memory stick.

Malc

[cpt_Bubba]

What features of the mju 1000 interest you as a digiscoping camera? Neil.


that wide iso range, the megapixels, the compact body, the xd-card, available settings, the picture quality, ...

[cpt_Bubba]

Can you say what you don't like about the Sony memory stick.

Malc


memory stick is more expensive, memorystick is a bit stupid becos all of my multimedia-stuff (mp3player, car-radio, gsm, canon S2 camera, gps, pda,...) are compatible with sd or xd cards. i have a lot of xd en sd memorycards here.
Why i hate memorystick is becos i think its the egoism of sony for using memorystick and not xd, sd or ...

[Neil]

These are nice features, although shared by many others digicams these days, but they aren't neccessarily going to add to the digiscoping experience. I had a quick look through the specs and I don't see anything much there for the digiscoper. I had the same issue with most of the Sony's. They have a sharp little lens and high iso capability , but for digiscopers looking to upgrade they don't have the features to help improve the percentage of "keepers". Sometimes though one feature that might not be apparent at first glance can turn the camera into a digiscoping gem. I've got Olympus 7070wz ,Nikon CP8400 ,the Leica C-Lux 1, Canon A640, Sony W100 and Fuji30. The only one that handles high iso's well is the F30. Most these days say they do but the images are very noisy over iso 400. The F30 at iso 1600 is similar to the Sony at 400 .
I'm interested in the performance of the little Olympus cameras as I'm a long time Olympus fan and would like to have one in my pocket. At the moment it's the F30 though. Neil.

[Johan van Rensburg]

These are nice features, although shared by many others digicams these days, but they aren't neccessarily going to add to the digiscoping experience. I had a quick look through the specs and I don't see anything much there for the digiscoper. I had the same issue with most of the Sony's. They have a sharp little lens and high iso capability , but for digiscopers looking to upgrade they don't have the features to help improve the percentage of "keepers". Sometimes though one feature that might not be apparent at first glance can turn the camera into a digiscoping gem. I've got Olympus 7070wz ,Nikon CP8400 ,the Leica C-Lux 1, Canon A640, Sony W100 and Fuji30. The only one that handles high iso's well is the F30. Most these days say they do but the images are very noisy over iso 400. The F30 at iso 1600 is similar to the Sony at 400 .
I'm interested in the performance of the little Olympus cameras as I'm a long time Olympus fan and would like to have one in my pocket. At the moment it's the F30 though. Neil.

Hi Neil.

I have been following all your posts on suitable digicams over a number of months now. This is the first post (that I can remember) where you list all your digicams. If you can only have ONE, which one will you pick?

It may be much to ask, but a side-by-side comparisson (from digicam PoV) would be grand.

Note - I am hard on equipment and your accident with the F30 points to less than robust enough to withstand my carelessness...

[Neil]

Johan,
I started a thread about last October that tried to rate digicams for digiscoping.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=69689&page=2&pp=25
I haven't updated it with the W100 but it wouldn't get a very high score. My preferred camera is the Nikon CP 8400. It's got a very sharp ED lens (24 - 85 mm ) and an Electronic Viewfinder so you focus looking through the lens like a DSLR . On a straight scope it's very fast getting on the bird and has a fast 5 frame burst (8 megs),RAW and iso 50. I've been using it for the last 4 months and have been very pleased. The olympus 7070wz is also a serious digiscoping camera. Both of these can take a lot of "knocking and dropping" .The others are all "toys" for beginners in my view. Neil.

[erniehatt]

I just read the mju100 takes great shots in good light, but watch out for noise at iso 200. Ernie