Digiscoping large birds(hawk size)??? (2 Viewers)

whenever i take pics of large birds they never seem to be as sharp or detailed as my pics of smaller birds, after thinking about this i guess it's because most of my small bird pics are taken from 20-30 feet and larger birds i must be atleast 50+ feet away to get the whole bird in, so my question is how can i get the detail i get of the small birds when taking pics of the larger birds? Would a lower mag eyepiece and me closer help? I'm using the pentax pf80ed-a with the pentax xl-28 eyepiece. here's some pics taken of a hawk from 60 feet or so.

http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8841

http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8840

the closeup is pretty good, can anyone tell if these pics were taken at full zoom or not using the exif data?

Don't know, but you wouldn't have a hope in hell's chance of getting within 60 feet of a large hawk in Britain - they're far too timid after centuries of persecution, often still continuing. Over here, you'd be lucky to get your pic from closer than 1,000 feet, unless you're concealed in a hide.

Michael

Michael Frankis said:

Don't know, but you wouldn't have a hope in hell's chance of getting within 60 feet of a large hawk in Britain - they're far too timid after centuries of persecution, often still continuing. Over here, you'd be lucky to get your pic from closer than 1,000 feet, unless you're concealed in a hide.

Michael

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That's a shame, our hawks, atleast in my area, are much more tolerant of people, maybe because we have so many damn people living in Florida.:t: