M9 and digiscoping anyone?

[adrian tyler]

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Hi, Anyone using an M9 to do digiscoping?

are there any rescorces out there regading M9 and telecopes?

 

thanks

 

adrian

Adrian Tyler - Photography

[a.noctilux]

No way adrian.

No liveview, for M9 so it's not possible to focus and frame.

 

Maybe with a "finder" of BEOON to frame and focus.

 

Arnaud

[adrian tyler]

No way adrian.

No liveview, for M9 so it's not possible to focus and frame.

 

Maybe with a "finder" of BEOON to frame and focus.

 

Arnaud

 

 

THANKS

 

yeah, wishful thinking... stuck with lugging the D3...

[Anasebi]

THANKS

 

yeah, wishful thinking... stuck with lugging the D3...

 

The only thing I see around here are some pretty crazy tele setups floating around with the viseoflex 3 that pop up from time to time.

[k-hawinkler]

Not crazy at all.

Fun!

 

Cheers, K-H.

[leicanut2]

Here is a set up I did years back I also tried it on my M9 and it works better than on the MP but I have sold everything after I retired do to a tad bit of a cash flow problem.

Now as things are starting to get better I hope to be back maybe with something new in fall of 2012

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/nature-wildlife/20546-scoped-leica-mp-800mm-results.html

 

Cheers Jan

 

Note the Visoflex and the 800mm scope tube with the 22228 adapter. Thing is heavy but was fun when I had it.

[Telyt2003]

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Hi, Anyone using an M9 to do digiscoping?

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thanks

 

adrian

Adrian Tyler - Photography

 

Hi Adrian,

I don't know, if it can be of help for you, but what I did in the beginning (when the M8 was new) and whenever no other camera than a digital M was at hand to shoot an image with an ANGLED spotting scope (just as a proof of somthing interesting observed), is the following:

I used an as small lens as possible with a short focal length, and an E39-filter thread ideally (the CV Snapshot-Skopar 25/4, but also the CV Color-Skopar 35/2,5 are well suited, but also small short Leica lenses with E39 filter threads) on the M8.

Often an (E39) filter was suitable, as a distance ring (with the sunshade removed).

 

The procedure is:

Spotting scope is focused on the desired object, the lens (its filter) with the M8 is put directly onto the ocular (fits exactly and firmly between the rubber and the glass in case of an E39 filter), and the focus of the lens is adjusted somewhere close to the closest focus.

Then a photo is taken, the sharpness checked, focus of the lens readjusted, next photo taken and checked, and so on.

Normally, after one or two minutes, I had found the correct focus on the lens and taped it.

Afterwards, whenever a photo was to be taken, I just had to focus the spotting scope, set the camera onto the ocular and release it.

(No Visoflex, no telephoto adapter for spotting scopes (instead of the ocular), no adapters - and no LiveView, for sure ).

 

Works, as mostly in digiscopy, only with a sturdy tripod, and with (almost) non-moving objects, typically of the type eagles in the nest.

If you want to release the camera in the right moment, you or a second person can easily observe the same scene with binoculars or a second scope.

 

I mainly did this with an angled Apo-Televid 77, 20x or 32x WW oculars and the M8.

It is almost impossible (to hold the camera firmly to the ocular) with the straight versions of spotting scopes, as long as no adapter for fixing the camera to the ocular is constructed (but this, again, would make no sense with the M8/9).

 

Best regards,

Telyt2003

 

PS: Today I mostly carry a digital compact camera (D-Lux) and dedicated adjustable adapter together with a spotting scope.

The main reason is: I no longer use angled spotting scopes (use straight version instead), and I no longer carry a tripod, but only a monopod or even less: a shoulder support (like Novoflex' Pistock-C). Thus, I had to adapt my digiscopy to the altered support and shape of the spotting scope.