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Fox
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Carolina
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I'm using a Celestron Vistapix IS70 digital scope. About the only thing that I see that I can change from automatic is the exposure value. I fiddled with it taking shots under different values and it seems the glow still lingers in any picture with sunlight. Am I missing something? Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong.
The digital scope in question can be found here http://www.celestron.com/c3/product.php?CatID=30&ProdID=417 Below is an example of the glow that I am talking about. You can see the bluish hue along the edges of his chest, the rounding of the tail feathers, and going up the right side of the eagle as well. I just want to know if I am doing something wrong or am I expecting more than the scope can do? |
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Heron
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Where is Dave when we need him? He's one of photo gurus around here. He's probably out playing with the foxes again.
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Fox
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Carolina
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I'm hoping someone will respond sooner or later. I have some really good 'hued' shots...lol. I know some of my earlier images were me just not knowing the scope, but I've gotten so much better with the scope and I still can't seem to avoid it in some instances...to the point I'm not even sure I am controlling it elsewhere. |
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WG Staff
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I'm going to move your thread into an area where it will be better seen.
Guess I'm not going to be moving it. I will put in a request to have this moved to the Wildlife Photo Tips Forum.
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WG Facilitator
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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Maybe he's just feeling sad and blue. . .
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Naturalist/Photographer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
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It looks like your camera is catching an effect from the scope optics. I would guess that the sun was hitting the front coating and picking up a blue hue. In the future you may want to shade the side of the front of the scope to prevent the sun from hitting the glass.
Our eyes will compensate more than a camera ever will when it comes to things like this. I too had a similar problem, but mine involved video and a special eyepiece that turns my scope into a 4000mm lens. Great for those 1/4 mile distant videos of animal behavior where you do not want to alter their actions. - see here for a sample of video done using a spotting scope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3c9grrpL0 It's better on DVD - web quality parsing is poor at Youtube ... sorry for the low quality.
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Fox
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Carolina
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A special eyepiece to turn your scope into a lens? I don't even know what that is but I think I already want one....<sighs>Man what I would give for a money tree right now..... |
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Big Fat juicy WORM
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Virginia, USA
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Maggynolia, would you kindly share some seed or seedlings from that money tree as soon as you get one, please! LOL
Dave, just saw your video and it is super! Loved the interaction between Mom and the pups.
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Naturalist/Photographer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
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I'll use a baseball cap or my "Dr. Dave, Wildlife Biologist" Aussie Bush Hat or even my hand, anything to keeep the sun off the front optic of the scope...
As for the eyepiece - Nikon at one time produced a kit that included a ccd camera with thread adapter for their spotting scopes that also came with a 5" LCD screen to view the image on. It has RCA output plugs that go into my handheld camcorder. The only problem is that the scope then becomes a fixed focal length of 4000mm - which makes wildlife work any closer than about 200 yards almost impossible unless I'm watching a bee nest ... or trying to count the number of fleas on the nose of a fox ![]() I dobelieve I have one of about 500 of the units that were sold in the USA.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Carolina
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Last edited by MaggyNoLia; 01-31-2009 at 09:26 PM. Reason: Breeding, because eagles don't bread. |
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