Dear All,
I would like to hear some views on taking quick and quite close pics please.
I have a Nikon 4500 and this is my first Spring season with it. I am struggling to get pictures of migrants and butterflies ie things that are often quite close and move about quickly. I use a Cheang adaptor and can set my scope up within seconds. However, sometimes that is too long and often, even with the x20-60 scope eyepiece at x20 I am too close to get a well proportioned picture. I have an Eagle Eye x5 zoom but find it hard to point in the correct direction and get enough light.
I see my options as
1) getting a Nikon x3 teleconverter. I assume there will be little or no vignetting and that the loss of light will be more favourable than the Eagle Eye x5. Can anyone confirm these assumptions?
2) by a digital SLR. I really like using SLRs and have not settled to the LCD yet. Does anyone use a digital SLR with a 300-350 telephoto lens? If so which camera please - know this option will be expensive. I would still use my 4500 for digiscoping.
3) get a digital video camera so that I could more easily follow the bird or butterfly, both in bushes and in flight. I have seen some good videograbs but know little about the camera or software needed. What kind of resolution do they give? Enough to allow good quality 6x4 prints? Roughly how much would an appropriate video camera cost.
Comments gratefully received.
Richard Rogers
I would like to hear some views on taking quick and quite close pics please.
I have a Nikon 4500 and this is my first Spring season with it. I am struggling to get pictures of migrants and butterflies ie things that are often quite close and move about quickly. I use a Cheang adaptor and can set my scope up within seconds. However, sometimes that is too long and often, even with the x20-60 scope eyepiece at x20 I am too close to get a well proportioned picture. I have an Eagle Eye x5 zoom but find it hard to point in the correct direction and get enough light.
I see my options as
1) getting a Nikon x3 teleconverter. I assume there will be little or no vignetting and that the loss of light will be more favourable than the Eagle Eye x5. Can anyone confirm these assumptions?
2) by a digital SLR. I really like using SLRs and have not settled to the LCD yet. Does anyone use a digital SLR with a 300-350 telephoto lens? If so which camera please - know this option will be expensive. I would still use my 4500 for digiscoping.
3) get a digital video camera so that I could more easily follow the bird or butterfly, both in bushes and in flight. I have seen some good videograbs but know little about the camera or software needed. What kind of resolution do they give? Enough to allow good quality 6x4 prints? Roughly how much would an appropriate video camera cost.
Comments gratefully received.
Richard Rogers