Latest and best digiscoping camera? to hand hold!! (1 Viewer)

midlandsbirder said:

Hi everyone, can anyone sugest a camera for digiscoping, (to reolace my Nikon 4500) and adapter, on a Swarovski ats 65 that I can hand hold and get decent results? perhaps I am asking too much, but I get fed up with lugging around an adapter /cable release combo , it has to be carried in a shoulder bag with spare. It would be great to just have a small camera in my pocket I could just take out and hold against the lense. The photography seems to be getting in the way of the birding, and I am faffing around too much with equipement, and missing the birds too often!
thanks

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midlandsbirder said:

Hi everyone, can anyone sugest a camera for digiscoping, (to reolace my Nikon 4500) and adapter, on a Swarovski ats 65 that I can hand hold and get decent results? perhaps I am asking too much, but I get fed up with lugging around an adapter /cable release combo , it has to be carried in a shoulder bag with spare. It would be great to just have a small camera in my pocket I could just take out and hold against the lense. The photography seems to be getting in the way of the birding, and I am faffing around too much with equipement, and missing the birds too often!
thanks

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Timedrifter said:

Hi MidlandsBirder!
I felt exactly the same as you are now - and I was already using a small camera! I use the Fuji F11 which you can literally slip in a shirt pocket. Instead of a fixed universal adaptor with a cable release and bracket, I now use a slip on adaptor made from a bottle top which acts as a centralising gadget, and hand hold my F11 in it. The result is I now spend more time actually viewing the birds through the scope (and therefore getting more detailed observations) than watching the screen. With the F11 and it's brilliant noise characteristics I can use high shutter speeds which compensate for any movement my hands may impart. As a consequence - welcome back to birding!!
Good birding now that you've freed yourself from all that weight carrying!
Timedrifter

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