I made this movie this morning, right after sunlight had begun to fall directly onto the feeders in our back yard. It was taken from our bedroom window with my wife's Nikon Coolpix P100, at the "HS" setting, with extreme digital zoom.
We're still far from getting a handle on using the camera with our fieldscope, not even sure now whether the P100 can be mounted to a fieldscope (although my wife believed that she had confirmed this when purchasing the camera). With a fieldscope, the images should be both sharper and better lit. Of course, since holding the camera against the fieldscope's eyepiece for a still photograph is very difficult, it would be virtually impossible to do so for a movie.
August 13. I learned definitively two days ago from Nikon that "There is no digiscoping adapter for the P100. The camera's lens diameter is too large."
I'm looking now at the Coolpix P300 (which includes slow and fast motion movie recording) and consulting Nikon again to make sure that the adapters listed on its digiscoping system diagram will work on the angled Nikon ED50 fieldscope. The ED50 pictured in the diagram is straight.
This came out pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI agree, "good," but only "pretty." I hope for more and better. I left a question on the Nikon website about what mount might be available for attaching their Coolpix P-100 to their ED50 fieldscope. The view of the birds through the fieldscope is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI guess we had our first view of birds through a fieldscope when we went to the coast in November for "Wings over Water." Our two guides both had a fieldscope, one of which let in a LOT of light (more than our ED50). Neither guide, so far as I recall learning, was into photography, so neither had anything for attaching a camera to her fieldscope.
Will the P300 also take slow motion movies?
ReplyDeleteYes, Steve, I believe so. One of the "other features" listed at the P300 website is "Slow and fast motion movie recording." That's a personal requirement, it's so cool to slow down bird movements.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Steve, PC World says of the "fast motion" feature: "In addition to 1080p high-definition video capture at 30 frames per second, the P300 boasts a high-speed video mode that captures 640-by-480 standard-definition clips at 120 fps, letting you slow down fast action and play it back in dramatic superslow-motion."
ReplyDeleteThanks, I need to check it out.
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