Attached is my best result from my first go at digiscoping (as opposed to digibinning) with my F31FD. A lot easier than digibinning as I only had to hand-hold one thing (the camera) so I could use two hands with it, and even then I could rest the camera against the scope eyepiece for increased stabiity.
The scope is a 1991 Kowa TS-602 (this is not APO/ED/HD/FL) with a 20x wide-angle eyepiece. The camera settings were:
* aperture priority and f2.8 (thanks Ron et al
* had to go up to ISO 800 I think to get a decent shutter speed (thanks Jo) (I'll correct this if someone tells me differently from EXIF data, which I'm not sure how to access).
* macro mode
* no camera zoom at all, and I haven't cropped the photo either - looks as though there was little or no vignetting even without any camera zoom.
* no timer I don't think, but I did use the 'Continuous - top 3' feature which I think will be really useful in avoiding handshake. The best of the three shots (attached) was in fact the last one, although this was partly due to the position of the Great Tit's head.
* other settings on their factory defaults I think e.g. single centre-spot auto-focus.
* not cropped or brightened, but sharpened slightly.
It looks a bit burnt out (over-exposed) on my monitor, but I am finding that photos look even brighter on other people's flat-screen LCD monitors than they do on my CRT, so anyone viewing this photo (or any of my photos) on a flat-screen monitor might find it VERY over-exposed. To me it's only slightly burnt out but I am still not sure what might have caused the over-exposure or how to avoid it - does anyone have any experience with that?
I was also pleased to get a Green-veined White in the garden today so I can't resist attaching that even though it wasn't digiscoped (or -binned). Also over-exposed though, I assume in this case because the subject was a much brighter white than the scene as a whole (which I have mostly cropped away).