Need some advice, please.
I was all set to buy a Nikon CP4500 (especially as they are really cheap now at Pixmania, are Pixmania any good?) to take up digiscoping when a thought occured to me....dodgy eyesight!
At present I have Nikon autofocus SLR sysytem and the reason it is an AF system is because my eyesight is not 100%. So the problem with digiscoping would be that although the bird appears in focus to me would it be in focus to the camera, not sure if you focus first and then attach camera or focus with camera on scope?
Would I be better off getting a camera with a big optical zoom and then putting on the Eagleye 5x converter, thus maintaining autofocus and bypassing my less than perfect eyesight??
All thoughts, abstract or pertinent, welcome.
Hmmm, tough one. Digiscoping does rely upon the user being able to judge when the image on his camera's monitor is perfectly in focus (best results usually obtained when focusing the scope onto subject via the monitor)... the camera doesn't usually see the same as the human eye through the scope anyway.
Even the Eagle Eye 5x requires some manual focussing, the lesser powereful 3x Nikon teleconverter doesn't...and nor would a 10x zoom camera with a normal (1.5x - 2x) teleconverter.
Hope that helps.
Andy
If you do go for the 4500, I got mine through Pixmania (France) and it was delivered to me in 48 hours. Great stuff!
Jen