FZ38 Telecon Lens or Digiscope (1 Viewer)

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Eamonn

New member

• Feb 19, 2011

• #1

Got a gift of Panasonic FZ38 this week. Have been photographing Finches but would like more zoom. Which is the better Telecon lens or do I just head down the digiscope route? Any tips appreciated.

 

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Neil

Well-known member

• Feb 20, 2011

• #2

The digiscoping route will give you much more power but will cost a lot more as you'll need a new camera,adapters,scope and tripod/head combo.
The FZ38 is only 18x optical zoom from memory so you could greatly increase your zoom by getting one of the higher zoom Panasonics, Canon SX30IS( 840 mm with digital zoom to 1700 mm ) or the new Nikon P500 with 36x optical.
Neil

 

John Fleet

Finally reached 300!

• Feb 20, 2011

• #3

.. or the new Sony (30 X = 810 mm eq focal length - coming April (£399 at launch) or the new Fuji Finepix F4000 (also 30 x but this time 720 mm eq focal length) looks like being around £250 at launch....

 

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Neil

Well-known member

• Feb 26, 2011

• #4

I'm looking forward to all these choices, but would like Raw and at least 2 fps.
Neil

 

will@bill

FATHER AND SON TEAM

• Feb 26, 2011

• #5

Eamonn said:

Got a gift of Panasonic FZ38 this week. Have been photographing Finches but would like more zoom. Which is the better Telecon lens or do I just head down the digiscope route? Any tips appreciated.

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i use a tcon 1.7 on my fz28 and you will find you rarely take it off
fz38 are no good for digiscoping