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Hi,
since a while, I use the Samsung S6 for digiscoping on my Swaro ATM-HD 80 scope. It is still one of the best smartphone cameras out there I think, and handling with the Kowa adapter is very easy.
Recently, I bought a m4/3 camera, the Pana G81 (or 85 or 80), and now I also got the 20 mm 1.7 pancake lense, which has a good reputation for digiscoping. It works well, I can use it with the Swaro DCA adapter. Handling is good, but defintly more clumsy than with the phone, just because everything is bigger and heavier.
I made a couple of test shots, and I was quite surprised, and a bit dissapointed: the m4/3 set-up isn't really better than the smartphone, it actually looks worse.
See below of a summary of test shots. I used a pole behind my flat, distance about 25 m. The upper pics were made in dim light on a cloudy evening, the below row is in the evening sun. Left ist the Panasonic, right is the Samsung.
So, do you have similar experience? Are small sensor smartphone cameras really as good or better as bigger sensors for digiscoping? And if so, why is that?
since a while, I use the Samsung S6 for digiscoping on my Swaro ATM-HD 80 scope. It is still one of the best smartphone cameras out there I think, and handling with the Kowa adapter is very easy.
Recently, I bought a m4/3 camera, the Pana G81 (or 85 or 80), and now I also got the 20 mm 1.7 pancake lense, which has a good reputation for digiscoping. It works well, I can use it with the Swaro DCA adapter. Handling is good, but defintly more clumsy than with the phone, just because everything is bigger and heavier.
I made a couple of test shots, and I was quite surprised, and a bit dissapointed: the m4/3 set-up isn't really better than the smartphone, it actually looks worse.
See below of a summary of test shots. I used a pole behind my flat, distance about 25 m. The upper pics were made in dim light on a cloudy evening, the below row is in the evening sun. Left ist the Panasonic, right is the Samsung.
So, do you have similar experience? Are small sensor smartphone cameras really as good or better as bigger sensors for digiscoping? And if so, why is that?