Hi everyone,
Many birders i meet are digiscoping, i.e. taking pictures through spotting scopes, and some of their pictures are great. I never heard of anybody taking pictures through a pair of bins. It's difficult to hold both the bins and the camera steady but i managed to get a few nice pictures. Such a setup is not very useful and will not replace a high-magnification camera objective anyway.
However, i wonder if pictures taken through bins could be used as a benchmark for the quality of the bins, since fuzziness at the edge of the picture is clearly visible, along with geometrical or chromatic aberration.
Would such a technique be a reliable means of comparing optics quality between different models of bins?
All the best,
zp.
[QUOTE=ZeNiTh-PbArM]Hi everyone,
However, i wonder if pictures taken through bins could be used as a benchmark for the quality of the bins, since fuzziness at the edge of the picture is clearly visible, along with geometrical or chromatic aberration.
Would such a technique be a reliable means of comparing optics quality between different models of bins?
All the best,
zp.[/QUOTE]
Those aberrations can also come from the camera lens.
One of our members ,Tanny,takes excellent shots through his binoculars,digi-binning.I have managed a couple of reasonable shots,but one does have to have a very steady hand,but it does work.