Greetings! I am one of many amateur birders/bird photographers mulling over buying a sigma 500 mm lens (for around $1k) or a 520mm galaxe spotting scope (http://www.galuxe.com.tw/telescope_GS520_801.html, about $400-500 not including the adaptors) to pair with my Canon 450D.
There are several lingering questions that I have after reading through what feels like a million digiscoping pages. I apologize in advance for knowing that these are questions that have been answered elsewhere on the internet, but I have had a hard time finding the answers.
1). Does anybody have any opinion about Galaxe scopes? They're from Taipei, where I currently live, and so affordable.
2). What would a 520mm spotting scope equal for a telephoto lens for my crop-censored DSLR?
3). When using a spotting scope with a DSLR, how quickly can you change between the two? Is it the sort of thing that I can be using the spotting scope for birding, decide I want to take a photo, and then boom, be firing off shots? Or is it a slower process? The speed of a long lens is always attractive to me, and a lot of my best shots thus far have been spur of the moment.
Thanks for any info on any of the above questions!
There are several lingering questions that I have after reading through what feels like a million digiscoping pages. I apologize in advance for knowing that these are questions that have been answered elsewhere on the internet, but I have had a hard time finding the answers.
1). Does anybody have any opinion about Galaxe scopes? They're from Taipei, where I currently live, and so affordable.
2). What would a 520mm spotting scope equal for a telephoto lens for my crop-censored DSLR?
3). When using a spotting scope with a DSLR, how quickly can you change between the two? Is it the sort of thing that I can be using the spotting scope for birding, decide I want to take a photo, and then boom, be firing off shots? Or is it a slower process? The speed of a long lens is always attractive to me, and a lot of my best shots thus far have been spur of the moment.
Thanks for any info on any of the above questions!