I'm really interested i getting in to digiscoping, so musch so that I was going to upgrade my Kowa TSN4. I was amazed when the guy at Focalpoint told me that he would stick with the scope that I have. He tried his Nikon Coolpix 4500 and the results looked good. I'm trying to buy one of these secondhand, but wondered if there is a good alternative. Would the new Samsung do the trick? Also, where is the best place to get an adaptor to fix the camera to the scope? I can't see handholding working too well.
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Digiscoping with Kowa TSN4 (1 Viewer)
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Paul Jarvis
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Hi Chrise
Welcome to birdforum first.
My dad uses his TSN 4 with a canon A95 and the kowa zoom eye piece which gives him very good shots with this combination. Not sure which eye piece you have but the opticron HDF and SDL zoom work a treat with the scope and produce even better shots than the kowa zoom, mainly because they have a wider fov and let more light through the scope.
IF it is just digiscping you are interested in try a fixed 20 or 30 eye piece these have a wider fov than the zooms. Infocus sell adapters that fit the opticron eye pieces and the samsung camera kit.
Good luck with your quest.
Paul
Welcome to birdforum first.
My dad uses his TSN 4 with a canon A95 and the kowa zoom eye piece which gives him very good shots with this combination. Not sure which eye piece you have but the opticron HDF and SDL zoom work a treat with the scope and produce even better shots than the kowa zoom, mainly because they have a wider fov and let more light through the scope.
IF it is just digiscping you are interested in try a fixed 20 or 30 eye piece these have a wider fov than the zooms. Infocus sell adapters that fit the opticron eye pieces and the samsung camera kit.
Good luck with your quest.
Paul
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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chrise said:
I use the nikon cp 990 with an adapter from London Camera Exchange. Works ok.
www.digiscoped.com is your best bet
Marcus Conway - ebirder
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Paul Jarvis said:
Is there an adapter for the a95 to kowa tsn?
Jaff
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Hi Chrise and welcome to the madhouse. :hi:
The attached pics were taken with :-
TSN4 with an Opticron 20-60x HDF zoom eyepiece, meant for the ES80ED, and a Coolpix 4500 with an Opticron adapter.
Two of the pics are the originals just resized and the other two are after editing in adobe photoshop to show the importance of some good photo editing software.
Also these were taken at full zoom on the Opticron eyepiece, which as most people will tell you is not recommended but judge for yourself.
Oh and it wasn't my TSN4
Jaff
The attached pics were taken with :-
TSN4 with an Opticron 20-60x HDF zoom eyepiece, meant for the ES80ED, and a Coolpix 4500 with an Opticron adapter.
Two of the pics are the originals just resized and the other two are after editing in adobe photoshop to show the importance of some good photo editing software.
Also these were taken at full zoom on the Opticron eyepiece, which as most people will tell you is not recommended but judge for yourself.
Oh and it wasn't my TSN4
Jaff
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For full zoom, the shots are very good indeed. Well done!Jaff said:Hi Chrise and welcome to the madhouse. :hi:
The attached pics were taken with :-
TSN4 with an Opticron 20-60x HDF zoom eyepiece, meant for the ES80ED, and a Coolpix 4500 with an Opticron adapter.
Two of the pics are the originals just resized and the other two are after editing in adobe photoshop to show the importance of some good photo editing software.
Also these were taken at full zoom on the Opticron eyepiece, which as most people will tell you is not recommended but judge for yourself.
Oh and it wasn't my TSN4
Jaff
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