I digiscoped the following photos using both my Nikon D40 and my iPhone 4s with my Swarovski Scope. Can you tell which ones are the iPhone 4s and which ones are the Nikon D40 photos?
1. Green-winged Teal
2. Northern Pintail
3. Red-eared Slider and Gadwall
4. Red-eared Slider and Gadwall
Now you are just showing off. Please tell me how you do it!
Oooh a challenge. I’ll guess the top photo of the Teal is the SLR, the pintail is the iPhone, the top gadwall is the iphone and the bottom gadwall is the SLR.
Although, after seeing one of these photos on your twitter feed I’d like to amend my answer.
Hi Sharon,
I think the top gadwal is iPhone, the rest DSLR.
or the other way around…
Either way, nice shots. I recently bought a (dead-cheap) Nikon coolpix s3100, but am not too pleased with its results. I liked my old (also very cheap) Samsung ES73 better but it sadly died a horrible death of overheated battery exposure…
Janneke
Oh my goodness, the teal is stunning but the makings of an enchanted fairytale of ‘The Duck and the Turtle’ has the ring of the seven or was it eleven brothers who were turned into swans until their sister had knitted each a nettle shirt.
Half the battle with digiscoping is getting to know your camera and getting to the point of being able to use it with your scope without thinking. From there it’s lighting.
All I’m doing with the iPhone is holding it up to my scope. When that adapter comes out from Meopta, I’ll be unstoppable.
Photos 1 and 4 were taken by hand holding my iPhone 4s up to my scope. Photos 2 and 3 were taken with my Nikon D4 SLR.
Wow, I got it backwards. I don’t know how you get such nice detail on your iPhone. Whenever I use mine to take pictures (regular pics, not digiscoping) everything looks too grainy, even with sufficient lighting. Very impressive.
How do you even digiscope with an eyephone. I can’t seem to line mine up with the eyepiece well enough to snap a photo. I’ve tried it with binoculars too and it does … not … work. So all you are doing is “holding it up to [your] scope” eh ? I can’t get good results this way. I have tried.
That is truly amazing! Wondering if I could do something similar with binoculars as we don’t have a scope. Yet-
I contacted Meopta’s customer service and they said that the meopix i-phone adapter will only work with their scopes. Maybe the customer service rep who responded to my inquiry had the wrong information?
wow ! what’s scoping?
It’s digiscopiong–using a digital camera with binoculars or spotting scope to get a photo:
http://www.birdchick.com/wp/digiscoping/
@Ryan the Meopta rep who contacted me told me that it would indeed with my Swarovski scope.
I would have gotten it completely backwards. And now, because of photos 3 and 4, I am hearing “Lean on Me” in my head.
Since my wife has the phone…I am finding it hard to find my Swarovski Scope! The Lady is on a mission, thank you for giving us the means to do so much together! Love, The Wizard