dantheman
Bah humbug
For those familiar with optics there is no confusion at all about what the term "digiscoping" means and what it does not mean.
For a formal OPTICAL definition go here:
http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=237
So by that definition, using a point and shoot type camera (fixed lens), or indeed mobile phone camera comes under digiscoping (ie it isn't prime focus) as the lens isn't removed (as it can't be!) . . ??
I know it isn't digital, but I have a photo of a Spoonbill I took in flight (pretty bad) about 15 years ago, taken by removing the lens off my Practica Super TL (sorry!) and offering it up to my spotting scope . . . would that be 'Prime Focus' or is it that term just used in digital photography?? The scope became the lens . . .
Also, I presume there is no term for taking images using a fixed lens film camera married (held or fixed) to another optical device (scope)?? (Submitted a record of Green-winged Teal in the Canaries by that means once)
(Now merrily going down the subdivision route! . . . ) Cheers,
Dan