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P5100 kowa 883 20-60 zoom (1 Viewer)

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I a very new to digiscoping. I purchased the scope for spotting long range targets for shooting initially, but chose the kowa based on the info here. I have a P5100 with the da10. It seem to do well with the 25X ler, however I recieved my 20-60x with excitement only to be very dissapointed with the vinnetting. I know I have seen people with this setup and am not sure why its seems so bad. I know the eye relief is about half of what I have with the 25x, but with the zoom much above 25 it is horrible at the end of the macro.
Do I need to zoom out and rely in focusing with the scope and set camera to infinity? Any sugguestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
I use this setup when I can (it's my dad's scope, I usually use the Kowa 821). The technique I use is to zoom in the camera just so much that the vigenetting dissaperes. If needed I zoom more with the eye piece but at higher zooms it's hard to get good pictures.

I use the settings found in the p5100 thread in the digiscoping/camera forum.

I'm just a newbie too, now concentrating on getting focus, then I'll move over to aparture and advanced stuff like that :D

I've been trying to focus by half pressing the shutter and then finetune the scopes focus, works quite well.
 
With my zoom (Swarovski 20-60x ) I'm not able to use the Macro Zone (green) without vignetting (not enough ER ) so I have two approaches -
1. Switch off Macro and zoom the camera lens until vignetting disappears. Rely on AF. If this seems to be problematic ( this could be not enough light/contrast for the AF to work properly ) then try -
2. Switch to Infinity focus and manually focus the scope. I also use this approach when the birds are moving around a lot and the AF has a hard time locking on (eg birds grooming rigorously ).
I hope this helps, Neil.
ps I prefer the fixed eyepieces over zooms
 
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