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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Can Popper" data-source="post: 599055" data-attributes="member: 39163">That's a darn fine photo.  Puts most of mine to shame...LOL  Looks like the digiscoping adapter makes a big difference in bringing out the finest detail.  After my wife saw your picture, I finally got approval to buy one...thanks!When you say you still get vignetting, are you referring to the dark areas around the circle of the image, like the no camera zoom pictures I took with my narrower field eyepieces?  If yes, that you need to try a long eyerelief, super widefield eyepiece next.Well, I just got back from the gun range.  I took a bunch of pictures with the Orion Stratus 5mm, Orion Lanthanum 2.3mm, GSO Superview 10mm, and my new Siebert Ultra 24mm.My OCA from Siebert Optics did come in at last.  Unfortunately, one of the lenses was wrong so I had to send it back to Siebert for retrofitting.  Thus no binoviewer report with the Pentax.I shot the 300 yards range at the gun range.  The weather condition was patchy clouds with occasional rain and occasional sun.  When the sun came out, I experienced some bad mirage.  When the clouds covered the sun, the mirage lessened greatly.  Wind was blowing the whole time and my cheap eBay tripod that held my Pentax shook so I wasn't able to get perfect photos.That said, when the mirage was gone, I could see my ragged bullet holes on the paper at 300 yards and on other people's targets at 400 yards.  I could even see the bullet holes that fell onto the white target paper.  They may not be readily apparent on my enclosed pictures due to wind shake (and picture down sampling).Overall, I am very pleased though I'll be buying a new tripod, LOL.  I could see where my shots was being placed and didn't have to walk or drive down range like the other fellows to see how I was doing.</blockquote>

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