First Blog Post Ever
Yesterday I took digiscope pictures using my Nikkon Coolpix P5100 camera and my PF 80ED Pentax scope with the SMC zoom eyepiece (8-24mm). The camera was hand held, and the process is awkward but for the first time this camera yielded some decent video and one good, one fair picture (out of maybe 30!). Now that I have confidence this camera/scope combination may work, I finally ordered an adapter. Jason at Eagle Optics recommends using auto focus once everything is set but I have my doubts. So far, macro focus is the only successful setting. Today I learned that if I place the scope about sternal height the display screen gets automatically shaded as I bend over to locate and focus.
As a result of the video, one dead certain identification was revealed as completely wrong: the "canvas backs" are in fact redheads! However, my tentative field identification of the lesser scaups was confirmed.
The birds I saw: American wigeons, American coots, Canada geese, lesser scaups, red heads, one lonely northern shoveler, ring-billed gull, herring gull, Say's Phoebe, meadowlark.
Last week Curt and I heard a canyon wren at the end of the Coyote Ridge trail!
As a result of the video, one dead certain identification was revealed as completely wrong: the "canvas backs" are in fact redheads! However, my tentative field identification of the lesser scaups was confirmed.
The birds I saw: American wigeons, American coots, Canada geese, lesser scaups, red heads, one lonely northern shoveler, ring-billed gull, herring gull, Say's Phoebe, meadowlark.
Last week Curt and I heard a canyon wren at the end of the Coyote Ridge trail!
Tags: bird, digiscoping, identification
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Comment by Gary Lefko on March 26, 2008 at 8:04pm
- Keep the videos coming--"Spielberg"! Gary
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- Let's see your videos ... :-) ... Gary
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