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Hi everyone,

I just purchased a Kowa ED 66mm lens and now I'm hoping to find a camera to go with it.

Here are my stupid questions.

1) Do I need a camera with an ED lens? If I do not have an ED lens, will it nullify the effect of the ED lens on my scope?
2) Does the Nikon coolpix p310 have filter threads? I can't seem to find the answer.
3) Would the p310 (or any other camera ~$200 [got any recommendations?]) work with a 20-60 zoom eyepiece? I can only afford one eyepiece--either the 30x or the zoom. What should I do?


Thank you for any help.
Brad
 
I have a 25 to 50 eyepiece on my Swarovski telescope , and use a " phoneskope " adapter on my iPhone 4s .
On the zoom setting , you get the photo inside a dark ring ( which you can Photoshop out ) but this doesn't occur on the lower setting . With the iPhone you can zoom on the phone as well and I have got some good ( for me !) pictures at long range . I don't know if this helps .
Regards
alring
 
Thank you!

I have figured out that the coolpix doesn't have threads. I might try to jerry rig an adapter. I'm not too worried about vignetting, because, like you said, it can be edited out.
 
bluebirder20 said:
Hi everyone,

I just purchased a Kowa ED 66mm lens and now I'm hoping to find a camera to go with it.

Here are my stupid questions.

1) Do I need a camera with an ED lens? If I do not have an ED lens, will it nullify the effect of the ED lens on my scope?
2) Does the Nikon coolpix p310 have filter threads? I can't seem to find the answer.
3) Would the p310 (or any other camera ~$200 [got any recommendations?]) work with a 20-60 zoom eyepiece? I can only afford one eyepiece--either the 30x or the zoom. What should I do?


Thank you for any help.
Brad
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Brad,
The Nikon P 300 series will do a good job for you. The Vortex PS 100 Adapter is very reasonably priced.
Neil.
 
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