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Kowa TSN 1 SLR adapter? Anyone used one? (1 Viewer)
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Vámibimbero
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Hello,
I would not expect any excellent outcoming with that combo. TSN-1 is not a fluorite scope, so chromatic aberration is high using a camera on it, but the view will be O.K. with naked eye. Try TSN-3 or 4 with fluorite lens, that is O.K. with DSLR and basic objective (50mm f 1,8) for digiscoping.
Vámi
I would not expect any excellent outcoming with that combo. TSN-1 is not a fluorite scope, so chromatic aberration is high using a camera on it, but the view will be O.K. with naked eye. Try TSN-3 or 4 with fluorite lens, that is O.K. with DSLR and basic objective (50mm f 1,8) for digiscoping.
Vámi
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PYRTLE
Old Berkshire Boy
Agree that results would be questionable, I wouldn't use it for that purpose - however it is the OP's first spotting scope so needs to find out its capabilities.
Vámibimbero
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Hello,
It is a resized, cropped picture with Pink-footed geese, made in zero light with TSN-3 and Nikon D7100 50mm f1,8 in Oudega, Netherlands last November.
Hi,
for classic digiscoping, that is by having a camera with objective behind the scope and EP, a TSN-1 will probably not deliver great results as the magnification is too great.
A body with an ED or fluorite element will be preferable.
The trick is to use either just the camera body behind the scope and EP - Kowa makes an adapter for that - or the old TLS APO which basically turns your scope into an 800mm f8 manual tele. Both of these end into T mount, so you need a T2 adapter for your camera too.
That way the magnification is not too high (in case of the eyepiece adapter you want to keep the zoom EP at low mag) and it's quite nice... see the examples in the Kowa commercials...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ei4bv6rt-8
and some examples of actual digiscoping (with an objective on the camera) and an example of too high magnification with the zoom at 60x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpzeTZF6OYU
Joachim
for classic digiscoping, that is by having a camera with objective behind the scope and EP, a TSN-1 will probably not deliver great results as the magnification is too great.
A body with an ED or fluorite element will be preferable.
The trick is to use either just the camera body behind the scope and EP - Kowa makes an adapter for that - or the old TLS APO which basically turns your scope into an 800mm f8 manual tele. Both of these end into T mount, so you need a T2 adapter for your camera too.
That way the magnification is not too high (in case of the eyepiece adapter you want to keep the zoom EP at low mag) and it's quite nice... see the examples in the Kowa commercials...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ei4bv6rt-8
and some examples of actual digiscoping (with an objective on the camera) and an example of too high magnification with the zoom at 60x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpzeTZF6OYU
Joachim
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