iPhonescoping: the return?

Mallard digiscoped through Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece, Apple iPhone 4S and bodged-together adaptor

Seed-munchers

Been playing around with digiscoping garden birds through the double glazing...

Sometimes the results are pretty good, considering

Chaffinches

Rook

Good light seems to be the biggest factor (it's really dull today)

Greenfinch

Other times they are not very good, but it's nice to have a record of what's been visiting the garden

Yellowhammers

Reed Bunting

photos taken with Canon Powershot A640 + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece

Swallow!

We're waiting to be fed. When's the next meal coming?*


Here it comes!





photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM or Apple iPhone*

Summer nights and other things

Saturday sunset


Barn barbecue (with Canon Powershot A640)


Swallow, iPhonescoped with Leica Apo Televid 77 + 20x eyepiece

Young Swallows have been queuing up on our garden fence and roof again. Though they've obviously been out of the nest quite some time, they are still receiving deliveries of insects from their parents!

Experimentation

What a soggy, miserable-looking Red-legged Partridge. 

It's not the most beautiful photo, but I took it with my iPhone through my scope. It's not cropped or edited in any way and once I'd found the optimum distance from my scope's eyepiece, there was no vignetting.

So far, so good, but it's quite fiddly to find exactly the right position for the phone. An adapter is most definitely required. I'm on the lookout for suitable materials - cardboard, the middles of rolls of tape, bits of pipe, maybe even margarine tubs - to manufacture something. Watch this space.

iPhonescoping. You read it here first (I think...).

photo taken with Apple iPhone 3G S + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece

Disapproving hare?

Inspired by Birdchick's Disapproving Rabbits... this disapproving Brown Hare was munching barley in the field this morning

photos taken with Canon Powershot A640 + Leica Apo Televid 77 with 20x eyepiece thru double-glazing