nikon 4500 & astro engineering zoom. (1 Viewer)

[medinabrit]

I have just purchased a used coolpix 4500 & an astro engineering 8x24 zoom which fixes to the camera lens .i believe this is a astro setup but would like to know if any birdforum members have ever tried this combo for birding?
hope someone out there can advise .
thanks, Brian

 

[medinabrit]

forgot to mention of course these two then go into my pentax pf scope.

 

[yossi]

Is this the Vixen eyepiece?

 

[medinabrit]

It,s the astro engineering digimax T zoom.i believe they are a british company.
Brian.

 

[yossi]

The EP looks very similar to the Vixen EP - maybe it's a clone or OEM. It should work. Here's a sample I've taken with the CP4500 and the Vixen EP using a SWARO 65 HD scope and a Plossl adapter. The sparrow was 60-70 meters away from me. I think the camera missed the bird and focused on the tiles. The EP was set to ~12mm. Combined focal length was ~ 4000mm (a bit too long). Some sharpening (USM) was applied to the picture due to the long focal length.

 

[medinabrit]

thanks yossi .my outfit should be here next mon or tues .if my pics turn out as good as yours did i,ll be satified. up to now i,ve held camera[sony dsc p8] to the eye piece.
brian.

 

[medinabrit]

by the way, i do already have a vixen 8x24 zoom so when the digimax arrives i,ll be able to compare them.
brian.