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Pentax: scope & cameras (esp Optio A10) (1 Viewer)

lachlustre

Should be recording bird song
I am completely new at digiscoping... Hope this makes sense!

I'm pretty set on getting myself a Pentax PF65ED scope... and now I'm thinking of the camera to go with it.

Obviously, Pentax is ALSO a fairly large manufacturer of the compact digital cameras of the general genre that seem to be popular with digiscoping (from what I can tell). They sell a bunch of cameras with 3x zoom, small lens diameters, etc. The Optio A10, which has caught my eye (probably just cos its newest and shiniest, but oh well) has 8 MPixels and image stabilization, which also has had some proponents. Pentax even make an adapter to match their scopes up to their cameras.

However I have found very little about digiscoping with Optio cameras (with or without Pentax scopes). Am I missing something? Has anyone had any success? Did you use the Pentax adapter or something else?

Cheers,
Rob
 
Hi lachlustre: I also own and use a Pentax scope for birding and digiscope. I have no experience with Pentax cameras but I think could offer a little advise. Is is important you choose your eyepiece carefully. My experience is that fixed eyepices are in general better than zoom (al least for digiscoping). Jose
 
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