When I originally decided on the Olympus 7070wz, after several experienced digiscopers were getting good results from the 5060, I had the Nikon 8400 on the shortlist of two. I always wanted to try out the EVF (electronic viewfinder ) because I thought that this could take digiscoping to a new level. I know a lot of people are going to DSLR and scopes to get the same effect but I'm still a "purist" digiscoper. For only a little more money I could have got the Olympus 330 DSLR .Anyway my mate Bob is enjoying his 8400 and getting good results so I dug deep and paid out US$700 for a 3 year old technolgy digicam. There are still 4 more at this price in Hong Kong if anyone still wants one.
I tested it first on the Swarovski zoom using the DCA but it needs more eye relief than that so I hooked it up on my trusty Swarovski 30x , using the zoom DCA and a third-party lens adapter with a 52 mm thread. You have to be a little careful when starting up the camera as the lens can touch the scope eyepiece ( the zoom DCA is slightly different to the fixed eyepiece DCA ). I know this is old news to the long time users of this digicam but I had a lot of fun with it today so thought I would share my first impressions.
Lot's of buttons for all the features which means you don't have to keep going into menus to change things. Has plenty of resolutions choices from RAW,Tiff to various levels of JPEG. It has one which it calls Extra which only has a compression of 1:2. I used this today. I has a fast Continuous Mode which takes up to 5 images at 2.3 frames/second. It also has a 5 shot buffer which only saves the last 5 frames in a continuous sequence (0.7 frames per second ). This a feature I liked on the Fuji F30. It has an iso of 50 which is nice for static subects in reasonable light. But what I had much fun with was the EVF. Very quick to get on the subject looking through a straight scope and focus was easy too. These photos were taken this way. No Remote was used in the taking of these photos as I think the battery was flat after sitting in the box for years.
The first photo showing the vignetting was taken at wide on the zoom with the DCA backed off about 2 mm otherwise the lenses touch. The second photo shows the view when the vignetting disappears , and the others were taken using the EVF and Continuous Mode. The last photo of the Long-tailed Shrike was slightly cropped and downsized for posting , otherwise as it came out of the camera. I will rate the camera after I've had a few days experience with it. Neil.
I tested it first on the Swarovski zoom using the DCA but it needs more eye relief than that so I hooked it up on my trusty Swarovski 30x , using the zoom DCA and a third-party lens adapter with a 52 mm thread. You have to be a little careful when starting up the camera as the lens can touch the scope eyepiece ( the zoom DCA is slightly different to the fixed eyepiece DCA ). I know this is old news to the long time users of this digicam but I had a lot of fun with it today so thought I would share my first impressions.
Lot's of buttons for all the features which means you don't have to keep going into menus to change things. Has plenty of resolutions choices from RAW,Tiff to various levels of JPEG. It has one which it calls Extra which only has a compression of 1:2. I used this today. I has a fast Continuous Mode which takes up to 5 images at 2.3 frames/second. It also has a 5 shot buffer which only saves the last 5 frames in a continuous sequence (0.7 frames per second ). This a feature I liked on the Fuji F30. It has an iso of 50 which is nice for static subects in reasonable light. But what I had much fun with was the EVF. Very quick to get on the subject looking through a straight scope and focus was easy too. These photos were taken this way. No Remote was used in the taking of these photos as I think the battery was flat after sitting in the box for years.
The first photo showing the vignetting was taken at wide on the zoom with the DCA backed off about 2 mm otherwise the lenses touch. The second photo shows the view when the vignetting disappears , and the others were taken using the EVF and Continuous Mode. The last photo of the Long-tailed Shrike was slightly cropped and downsized for posting , otherwise as it came out of the camera. I will rate the camera after I've had a few days experience with it. Neil.
