Long lens replacement ideas, please.

[Chipper]

Four of them have, the rest seem to be around Latvia.

Yes, you are right there gramps. The resident mute swan pair are giving them a bad time and chased off some whoopers earlier in the month. I asked one of the wardens where they were last Thursday and they said a lot were in the Netherlands. Patience... not my strongest suit!

 

[gramps]

Yes, you are right there gramps. The resident mute swan pair are giving them a bad time and chased off some whoopers earlier in the month. I asked one of the wardens where they were last Thursday and they said a lot were in the Netherlands. Patience... not my strongest suit!

5 more arrived overnight so 9 now on the Rushy Lake.

 

[RedRobin]

I've seen people at Slimbridge with spotter scopes and compacts attached. Seems like a lightweight solution with a long reach - no idea what picture quality is like though.

....According to wildlife photographers I have spoken to, unless you spend several thousand pounds the image quality is ok for recording but simply not up to the standard of a D-SLR telephoto lens. The combo is more established as the tool of birders (spotters who list their sightings) rather than wildlife photographers.

I think it is reasonable to assume that if such scope+compact combos matched high IQ standards, then many more wildlife photographers would be using them.

 

[Byker28i]

....According to wildlife photographers I have spoken to, unless you spend several thousand pounds the image quality is ok for recording but simply not up to the standard of a D-SLR telephoto lens. The combo is more established as the tool of birders (spotters who list their sightings) rather than wildlife photographers.

I think it is reasonable to assume that if such scope+compact combos matched high IQ standards, then many more wildlife photographers would be using them.

Thought I'd ask as it might have been they were of acceptable quality with a lower cost, or that the spotter scopes had a greater magnification not possible with a camera. After all astronomers do well through their telescopes

 

[RedRobin]

Thought I'd ask as it might have been they were of acceptable quality with a lower cost, or that the spotter scopes had a greater magnification not possible with a camera. After all astronomers do well through their telescopes

....I think that it's the same as with everything else : You get what you pay for.

Certainly some of the scopes do have a greater magnification than most camera lenses. What is or isn't acceptable image quality has to be up to the individual. Also, their available funds will have an influence.

Astronomy telescopes are usually very firmly fixed, more so than a portable tripod, and this will play a part in achievable image quality. They are also more specialist as lenses and have a slightly different job to do than when delivering an image to a camera sensor.

It's Horses-for-Courses and so depends what you want to achieve.

 

[Byker28i]

Cheers