Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 (1 Viewer)

[Andy Holt]

This new Sony camera has a DSLR sized 10mp sensor and a 24mm-120mm fixed lens. Plus it has a live preview 2" LCD monitor.

Focal length wise this might work for digiscoping, but I wonder whether the fact that the lens size (68mm thread) is alot larger than previous digiscoping cameras would cause a problem for potential digiscoping use?

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscr1/

Anybody got any thoughts?

Cheers
Andy

 

[yossi]

I assume that there will be heavy vignetting with most scopes as 67mm is very wide.

 

[Jay Turberville]

I assume that there will be heavy vignetting with most scopes as 67mm is very wide.

Width of the front lens element is not a cause of vignetting. In fact, having a larger aperture can be a benefit when you have a less than ideal entrance pupil location in a lens.

The main issue with this lens is the larger, high resolution sensor and the 5x zoom range. The 5x range means the lens entrance pupil probably won't be well placed for digiscoping. The larger sensor means that the effective f-number will be relatively high at typical digiscoping magnifications.

Add to this the weight issues, and I'm not hopeful for this as a good digiscoping camera. It might do OK, but I'm wouldn't hold my breath.