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I have done this and it works, and works pretty good.
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Agreed!
Double agreed! Has gotten me some pretty alright shots.
Me too! It’s great for birding. Plus using the binoculars makes a nice circular border in the pictures.
*cough* redneck *cough* ;p
I’ve totally done this on multiple occasions, and most of the time it’s really worth it if you can steady your hand.
That’s how I got a really amazing shot of a moose at Yellowstone!
really, must try!
I have done this with my cell phone and binoculars, becuase obviously my cell phone doesn’t have a zoom. It takes about 5 minites to get steady enough to take a picture, or put another way, only about 1 in 10 pictures is worth looking at.
Birders do that sort of thing all the time with their spotting scopes and somewhat less often with their binoculars. Google digiscoping and digibinning.
Wow…this guy REALLY wanted pictures of the couple going at it on the other side of the stadium in the very back of the bleachers!
LOOOOLL EPIC
Always wanted to try this with a telescope.
I have actually done this for getting pictures of the Moon. My telescope has a place to attach an SLR (with an adapter), but it works just fine to stick my wife’s old digital snapshot camera in the hole and take the photo.
I understand the binoculars, but why the barf bag?
shouldn’t he be using two cameras?
[Insert requisite "old!!" comment here]
Not to be pedantic, oh witty writer of the headlines, but that’s an OPTICAL zoom solution. Digital zoom is implemented in software.
It COULD be a solution to overcome the terrible digital zoom….
Actually it would depend on whether he is using the binoculars to enhance the camera or the camera to enhance the binoculars
but he’s using his digits to turn the focus knob, and they look kinda soft… :>0
Digital zoom is the problem. The binoculars are the solution.
agreed!
I was just going to post that. Glad someone else caught it too.
Maybe he just wants a close-up photo of his new binoculars.
When voyeur’s go digital.
Alternatively, you could buy a decent camera to begin with.
At least he remembered to take the lens caps off the binoculars before trying to use them.
Zombie catch and release head tag. Next big hit on infomertials.
It’s a combination camera/binoculars/iPod/key chain, it seems.
I’ve done something similar – taking close-up photos through a magnifying glass. Didn’t really work very well.
Worst private investigator ever. Here we are, watching him.
At least he has the sense to blur his face.
DON’T TRY THIS! (look what it’s done to his face)
I’ve looked like that on a few Saturday afternoons.
The binoculars made the image to small so he is using the camera to enlarge it
It’s always possible. I can’t see why it wouldn’t work..
It work, though it takes some practice. You use the LCD on the cameras back to assure that everything is aligned correctly. Then snap the photo. Just as some half naked hairy backed yahoo walks past with his beer and hot dog.
I’ve never managed a good shot with a telescope through the eye piece. Its just too tricky. You need a solid adapter to hold the camera in position.
Even if you are using it in terrestrial mode to catch that redhead as she enters the bath. Just before the nice man in a blue suit presents you with your new bracelets…
Older than you think, folks.
Submarine crews attached cameras to the eyepiece of the periscope to take pictures during World War II.
It’s ironic that the guy which shot this was using the same thing.
It does work actually..
I’ve totally done this and if you hand is steady enough it works well
It’s called digiscoping, in case you haven’t heard of it yet.
Atleast he remembered the barfbag, now its an underwater camera!
I once went the other way: held the camera up to a microscope. I was able to prove that ballots (yes, real US election ballots) printed with offset printers can be distinguished from ballots printed with a laser printer (and hence possibly fraudulent). Worked perfectly.
(In case you’re curious: laser printers leave a smattering of stray toner particles around whatever they print. Offset printers don’t.)
Ms Fixit, you’ve been away for a few days. I hope all is well with you–I’m sure I’m not the only one looking for a daily fix of laughter!
This method works surprisingly well. I was able to get nice close up shots of the lava flow at night on the big island in Hawaii with the same technique.
That actually works too..I do private investigations and Ya can actually see everything,,taking pics is awesome and never messed up pics either =) Outta try it for Yourself……….Put it like this if I was 3 or 4 footballs fields radius in Washington DC near the White House :right: well I have quite a few pics of some Presidents =)
I’m quite sure that with all that paraphernalia it has to be some new way to smuggle alcohol into the stadium.
Why dont y0u buy a camera with telelens?