Tavish
Well-known member
Hi Guys,
Am using an ancient pair of Praktika 12x25 bino's but I seem to get on OK with them apart from the fact that everything is always slightly out of range (the birder's lot?). I'm particularly interested in starting to get a few photo's - especially for situations like finches sitting high in a tree - then I can identify at my leisure or post them on here. So I started looking around in John Lewis and it was a bit confusing. The cameras seem to have optical zoom and digital zoom (what's the difference?) Theses zooms might go up to 30 or 40 times (depending on what you pay) - yet binos are basically 10 x mag even when expensive. Is magnification different to zoom? Why don't bino's magnify or zoom up to 30 times? That would remove the need for the camera as a bird in the top of a tree would be clearly seen. Does anyone understand all this? Many thanks
Am using an ancient pair of Praktika 12x25 bino's but I seem to get on OK with them apart from the fact that everything is always slightly out of range (the birder's lot?). I'm particularly interested in starting to get a few photo's - especially for situations like finches sitting high in a tree - then I can identify at my leisure or post them on here. So I started looking around in John Lewis and it was a bit confusing. The cameras seem to have optical zoom and digital zoom (what's the difference?) Theses zooms might go up to 30 or 40 times (depending on what you pay) - yet binos are basically 10 x mag even when expensive. Is magnification different to zoom? Why don't bino's magnify or zoom up to 30 times? That would remove the need for the camera as a bird in the top of a tree would be clearly seen. Does anyone understand all this? Many thanks