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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HermitIbis" data-source="post: 3396189" data-attributes="member: 128291">The Baader adapter is useful, as I no longer fear to scratch the lens or the eyepiece. And I can get more photos. A new photo below, a little closer to "superzoom quality". This more or less proves for me that my scope + the V2 might beat the SX50, with the right combination of a good lens and maybe the 20-45x eyepiece.Postscript. I am aware that many of the best pictures in the digiscoping section were shot at a magnification of ~30x, using the V1 with the top-notch 18.5mm lens. However, in a case like mine, where obviously my bad eyes are the main source of failure (when focusing the scope), shouldn't it be my guiding line to "see the bird as large as possible on the screen", to give me a better chance to (a) focus the scope, and (b) focus with the camera on the bird, either manually or AF? And following this logic, wouldn't the 20-45x eyepiece combined with the 11-27.5mm lens be my best option (rather than combining the 30x WW eyepiece with the 18.5mm 1Nikkor lens)?</blockquote>