The view as seen by the iPhone through the kitchen window:
The shot as taken through the binoculars:
Same thing cropped as the view through the binoculars does not fill the frame:
The phone needs to be as near as possible to the binoculars / scope lens so the rubber eye cup was pushed back as far as it would go. The auto focus on the phone camera did the rest as far as focus and exposure went.
Certainly worth a try if the phone is the only camera you have with you in that sort of situation. Gives a reasonable record shot if nothing else.
Worth a go...I've seen some digiscoped images that aren't much better.
ReplyDeleteNext stop the moon and planets. Venus is showing well just before sunrise.
Adrian: Owt's better than nowt as the saying goes ;) Shooting through double glazing degrades the result a bit and with the phone camera being only 5M pixels it did pretty well.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised by what a good result you got with that John, excellent I thought!
ReplyDeleteSo was I Jan considering that the iPhone doesn't have a high pixel count compared with some.
DeleteFinally John, I come to this post that I am so sorry I missed at the time. I’m guessing that you’ll know that my absence in commenting tells you I hadn’t seen this – even on my phone reader. There was a lot going on at the time.
ReplyDeleteThank-you for experimenting with this on my behalf and detailing what you tried and the results you got – not bad at all!
I’d agree on the jiggling to get the phone lens right and would definitely agree that this is worth a go to capture a close up image. Recording moments and sightings now when you are out without a camera is so much easier with mobile phones. The IPhone has many great apps for this and you have introduced me to a few through your blog posts – thank-you :-D
Sharing ideas and discoveries is at least half the fun of blogging Shirl.
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