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    Hiya,

    im new on the site and looking through things, ive been looking to get into digiscoping with my camera but is that possible. I have olympus e410 dslr which i love though im not in love with the long lens at the moment! so i though doing it this way might improve my images for the comps i want to enter.

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    I tried it with my E500 some while ago with my cheapie digiscope, but the results were pretty poor, i achieved much better results with my Sigma 50-500. Which big lens do you have Billy, you don't mention it in your profile.
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    opton 500mm lens with 2x on it as needed.. i jus find taking pics with it hard, they look good when i get them on my comp there kindof grainy and im trying to work out what i need to do...

    Also theres a fair few comps out there for digiscoped pictures, and only those sort which id like to enter.. if its possible to and i can afford to, my lens cost me all my christmas and birthday money for years!!
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    Billy, apparent graininess is normally caused by using a high ISO setting on your camera. You have to play iso, shutter speed and F number off to get the results you want. For wildlife shots usually a fast shutter speed is needed to freeze the action and counteract camera shake, to get fast shutter speeds you will require a large aperture (which gives shallow depth of field), stopping down the aperture( to increase depth of field) reduces shutter speed so we have to increase ISO which gives the graininess.
    Your pic of the tufted duck is better than the results I got when I tried a digiscope.
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    Quote Originally Posted by joe View Post
    Billy, apparent graininess is normally caused by using a high ISO setting on your camera. You have to play iso, shutter speed and F number off to get the results you want. For wildlife shots usually a fast shutter speed is needed to freeze the action and counteract camera shake, to get fast shutter speeds you will require a large aperture (which gives shallow depth of field), stopping down the aperture( to increase depth of field) reduces shutter speed so we have to increase ISO which gives the graininess.
    Your pic of the tufted duck is better than the results I got when I tried a digiscope.
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    that pics with my lens, not my digiscope-

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    I assumed that you had a seperate camera that you attached to your scope.
    Of course the depth of field and aperture are set by the scope, so that leaves you the shutter speed and ISO to play with on the camera.

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