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Digiscoping via Digital SLR cameras which one is the better fit for you |
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Written by OpenDP
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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9- What type of accessories are a must to have on the field when you are out for digiscoping? What are those items that one should bring with her in order to take quality photos and not to miss a scene?
The essentials are Scope, Camera, Adapter and cable release, if you are serious about digiscoping there is really no point in using a camera hand held to the eyepiece. Electronic cable releases are available for some models, I have always got on fine with an old mechanical cable release that simple depresses the button and is mounted on a bracket. There is also less to go wrong. Various other accessories are available for digiscopers, such as monitor shades and magnifiers, and locating sights. Shades and magnifier held you to see the screen and are useful on sunny days and help accurately focus. Personally I have never felt the need for a locating site as I prefer to rely on my hand eye coordination. However sometime birds are very difficult to find in bunches or on the sea where there are no markers.
Nuthatch
Taken using a Canon 350D DSLR and a Canon 100-400mm from a hide at a feeding station.
Copyright © Richard Ford - www.Digitalwildlife.co.uk
10- How often do you use post processing? What software you use and how they help you to improve your artwork?
Photoshop is brilliant and may well come with your camera, the elements version has most of what you need. It is often necessary to tweak digiscoped images a little, brightening them up and using a little sharpening is normal.
11- There are many digital cameras that are suitable for digiscoping but don’t have raw output. JPGs don’t let you to adjust your photos like it was in capture time, how do you deal with that?
I have only used one camera for digiscoping that would capture raw files, the Nikon Coolpix 8400 and it was painfully slow at writing them to the card. This feature would be nice in a digiscoping camera and is available on only a few cameras that are digiscoping friendly. Its often useful to take quick burst of JPG images however, rather than one every 2-3 seconds if you are lucky, which was the experience I had with the Nikon 8400. I was missing to many shots and reverted to JPG. Other P&S cameras may now be faster at writing Raw files, I certainly hope so. Of course digiscoping is possible with a DSLR and these cameras certainly will capture and write RAW files very quickly.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 October 2007 )
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