Colin
Axeman (Retired)
I know that somewhere here, someone mentioned taking digital pictures thru one eyepiece of a binocular. The problem was keeping the whole thing steady.
I was sitting one a rock on a beach in northern Scotland a few days ago resting after a long hike and thought about this. I had my Nikon binnies (10x42) with me as well as my Nikon Coolpix 995. I tried an experiment and it worked. Firstly I was pleasantly surprised that the camera lens fitted snugly against the eyepiece. Hand holding the whole lot was a complete failure. Then, an idea. I 'straddled' the binnies (having focussed them first) over my thigh near to my knee. I then offered up the camera to one of the eyepieces and with the screen part swivelled upwards I could easily see the image. A tiny bit a refucussing and I had a good image. By altering the angle of my thigh with the ground I was able to alter pitch and I tried out a couple of shots of a cliff ( no birds ) and I was very happy with the result. A bit more practice and the pics should be OK. The critical thing is to get into a sitting position which is comfortable and thus avoids shaking.
Anyone else tried this or is there a better way.
Colin
I was sitting one a rock on a beach in northern Scotland a few days ago resting after a long hike and thought about this. I had my Nikon binnies (10x42) with me as well as my Nikon Coolpix 995. I tried an experiment and it worked. Firstly I was pleasantly surprised that the camera lens fitted snugly against the eyepiece. Hand holding the whole lot was a complete failure. Then, an idea. I 'straddled' the binnies (having focussed them first) over my thigh near to my knee. I then offered up the camera to one of the eyepieces and with the screen part swivelled upwards I could easily see the image. A tiny bit a refucussing and I had a good image. By altering the angle of my thigh with the ground I was able to alter pitch and I tried out a couple of shots of a cliff ( no birds ) and I was very happy with the result. A bit more practice and the pics should be OK. The critical thing is to get into a sitting position which is comfortable and thus avoids shaking.
Anyone else tried this or is there a better way.
Colin