Digiscoping

Spotting scope with a digital camera mounted afocally using an adapter.
Digiscoping waterfowl
Typical uncropped digiscope image; the spotting scope has 20x magnification. Camera focal length is 24 mm; distance to the subject is about 90 meters.

Digiscoping is a neologism for afocal photography, using a (digital) camera to record distant images through the eyepiece of an optical telescope.

Digiscoping usually refers to using either a digital single-lens reflex camera with lens attached or, more often, a fixed lens point and shoot digital camera to obtain photos through the eyepiece of a birdwatcher's spotting scope.[1] The term has also been associated with the use of a digital camera and spotting scope equipped for prime focus photography.[2]


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