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What smartphone? (1 Viewer)
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Jono L
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I have been using Samsung A5 for four years (firstly with a Zeiss 65 and now with Swaro 85) and it continues to give me good results. It has a 16MP rear camera, whereas many only have 12MP and that does make a difference. Sadly there is no slow motion option.
I have a home-made adaptor which is a deep rubber lens cover (from the Ziess 65) super-glued on to a cheap silicon case. I also have a hard plastic off the shelf adaptor, but I prefer my own as the rubber allows for quick use, without the risk of moving the scope (the hard plastic one is a very tight fit and needs a shove to fix in place). Lots of images on my blog were mostly taken with this phone, scope and adaptor set up: http://birdingdad.blogspot.com/
Here is a female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker I saw recently as an example.
I have tried two other phones recently:
Iphone 6s- great phone and worked well on the whole, but struggled with auto settings making pics over-exposed (although there is probably a fix to this)
Samsung S7 Edge - again, great phone, but the lower resolution on rear camera was noticeable compared with the A5.
Cheers, Jono
I have a home-made adaptor which is a deep rubber lens cover (from the Ziess 65) super-glued on to a cheap silicon case. I also have a hard plastic off the shelf adaptor, but I prefer my own as the rubber allows for quick use, without the risk of moving the scope (the hard plastic one is a very tight fit and needs a shove to fix in place). Lots of images on my blog were mostly taken with this phone, scope and adaptor set up: http://birdingdad.blogspot.com/
Here is a female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker I saw recently as an example.
I have tried two other phones recently:
Iphone 6s- great phone and worked well on the whole, but struggled with auto settings making pics over-exposed (although there is probably a fix to this)
Samsung S7 Edge - again, great phone, but the lower resolution on rear camera was noticeable compared with the A5.
Cheers, Jono
