fneil

From my experience with Swarovski you would be better using a longer scope eyepiece and less zoom on the camera.  Most digicam lenses are'nt at their best near full zoom and the lack of light ( due to high f stop ) makes auto focusing difficult.  I don't like to zoom the camera lens over half way unless the light is very good and the subject is close. Neil.

fneil

I stayed until after dusk last Wednesday and still wanted to keep digiscoping the Curlew Sandpipers so I switched from the Nikon 8400 to the Fuji F31fd and set kept shooting from iso 800 to 1600 to 3200. Here is the 1600 and 3200 images taken at 60x on the zoom eyepiece. Neil.

Mai Po Nature Reserve,
Hong Kong,
China.

25/04/07

Fuji F31fd and Swarovski STS80HD scope and Sw 20-60x zoom and DCA adapter