Melproudfoot
Active member
Dear All,
Sorry to drag you back to digital cameras 101, but just having started this is where I am!
What I would like understand is the basic "good for digiscoping attributes" in a "through the eyepeice" point and shoot rather than specific models.
Are we looking for cameras that:
1/ have internal focusing - so the external lens does not move or rotate?
2/ have a filter threat to mount an adapter, and a "fixed" lens that does not move - even in and out to zoom?
3/ pixels? more the better? I am currently looking at 7MP (this after getting a Canon D20 which has changed my expectations from digital).
4/ Any other basics that you can think of?
My point and shoot (olympus Z40) is about to go to a better place, and I am looking at the Sony W7 - having been advised that this a "good" camera with a scope. But am also rather taken with the Casio Exilim EX-Z 750 which seems to come out a bit better overall performance in the various reviews.
5/ Also, what did you do? (i)Get the scope first then find a camera to suite (ii) get both together, or what?
I guess that I could use the D20 via a camera mount, depending on the scope I get, but then I don't get the flexibility of using various eyepieces.
I tend to watch at my local RSPB, at Dungeness Kent UK, which has some interesting subjects, but from the hides they are sometimes quite a distance away.
regards
Mel
Sorry to drag you back to digital cameras 101, but just having started this is where I am!
What I would like understand is the basic "good for digiscoping attributes" in a "through the eyepeice" point and shoot rather than specific models.
Are we looking for cameras that:
1/ have internal focusing - so the external lens does not move or rotate?
2/ have a filter threat to mount an adapter, and a "fixed" lens that does not move - even in and out to zoom?
3/ pixels? more the better? I am currently looking at 7MP (this after getting a Canon D20 which has changed my expectations from digital).
4/ Any other basics that you can think of?
My point and shoot (olympus Z40) is about to go to a better place, and I am looking at the Sony W7 - having been advised that this a "good" camera with a scope. But am also rather taken with the Casio Exilim EX-Z 750 which seems to come out a bit better overall performance in the various reviews.
5/ Also, what did you do? (i)Get the scope first then find a camera to suite (ii) get both together, or what?
I guess that I could use the D20 via a camera mount, depending on the scope I get, but then I don't get the flexibility of using various eyepieces.
I tend to watch at my local RSPB, at Dungeness Kent UK, which has some interesting subjects, but from the hides they are sometimes quite a distance away.
regards
Mel