The Total Beginner's Guide to Binoculars, Scopes and Digiscoping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to step into the world of birding, binoculars and scopes.
Clifton Camera's resident sport optics expert Martin Drew takes us to Cannop Ponds in the Forest of Dean and answers all of our sport optics questions.
0:44 What do the numbers mean? Where do I start?
2:35 Is bigger better? What magnification do I need?
5:15 What is the difference between full sized and pocket sized binoculars?
8:00 Why would I need a spotting scope?
9:29 What should I consider when buying a scope? What size objective do I want? Straight or angled body?
13:38 What does ED, HD APO etc. mean?
15:22 What is digiscoping? What do I need?
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That Swarovski spotting scope is a real great pleasure looking through.
I had no idea what a digiscope was and looked to TH-cam, this excellent video provided the answer in an easy to follow and understand manner. Thank you to the team
Excellent video. Thank you for explaining spotting scopes in depth
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Very well done. Explanation were to the point and for a novice easy to follow.Thank you
Thank you for the informative video, now I understand the 8,10 and 12 magnification.. It's hard to look and enjoy the beauty of a bird or a butterfly if the picture isn't steady. If not using a tripod, then an 8 would be fine, even a 10 is a bit shaky.
Excellent overview, thank you foe sharing
Great video. Thanks
Excellent video and to the point, thank you!
a great video - thanks for the advice
Enjoyed that, most helpful, thank you.
Thanks Guys, loved the video, very informative, just got My first spotting scope from Lidl, only £25, it was the last one so thought if I don't grab it for the price I'd only regret it, I know it was only cheap but it's a starter!, Thanks again.
I had my first attempt at digiscoping yesterday, using my ATX bought from Clifton
with the 30-70x95 module. Great results overall, although some vignetting at the higher end of
focal length using my D500 camera.
Hi Martin,
Just looking again at your spotting scope video; my SV Bony 80mm spotting scope has FMC ….I’m not quite sure what Fully Multi Coated means but in your view is this ok. Kind regards Ken.
Well explained. Very easily understood albeit under the strain of hearing your voices through the noise of the cars. Would have been better deeper into the woods away from the road.
ED and APO were mentioned, but not by any means clearly defined. I was particularly looking for a clear definition of APO.
Failed to mention the golden rule in regard to magnification/objective lens. Always times the magnification by 4. So if the magnification is 8, then 8x4 = 32 so the minimum objective lens size for that magnification would be 32. 40 would be better as it will allow more light in however 20 would be too small and quite dark when you looked through them.
That doesn’t work quite so well with scopes though right? 4x 40 would require a 160mm lens - the largest scope lenses run to 95mm.
I have a small pair that are 10x25. I find it hard to look through. The lens holders slide open and closed. It isn't too bad in a pinch, but I would rather get a good scope or better binoculars. I live in Florida and there is lots to see. There is this one alligator. He lives in one of the natural parks. I love looking at him because he is huge. I couldn't tell you how far he is from my view.
First numbers magnification second number is the secondary lense and howmuch light it let's in 50 is gudd binocs average, 90_100 is high for a spotting scope, ie if yiu want to spot in low light yiu want the second number to be high, ie by moonlight etc
I know one im going to buy. A bresser 20x60x60 scope
I use two of the cardboard tubes at the centre of toilet rolls. ive sellotaped them together and use toffee wrappers as lenses. coupled with my reading glasses I can see fuck all.
An excellent video, though I noticed no mention of waterproofing or anti fogging which are crucial for birding. Please could you tell me what tripod the ATX was on?
Thank you for your comment Mark. We did forget to discuss waterproofing and weather sealing and you're quite right those things are important, if you have any questions don't hesitate to call or email us. The tripod the ATX is on is a Manfrotto Nature kit. Martin purchased that tripod and kit in 2000 and it has since been discontinued. The 2018 equivalent would be the Manfrotto 055 aluminium legs (www.cliftoncameras.co.uk/manfrotto-mt055xpro3-new-055-aluminium-tripod-3-leg-section) and RC head(www.cliftoncameras.co.uk/manfrotto-700rc2-composite-video-head).
Clifton Cameras I noticed the other gentleman was using either the 055 or 190, both of which I have for photography. Thank you very much for your reply, what a shame it was discontinued. I got a velbon free with my ATS and the head only lasted 3 years where I use a manfrotto for macro and with my Bronica that’s 30 years old nearly.
Best cheap bird watcher scopes for eye glass wearers. Not easy with specs
‘Scope’ and ‘cheap’ don’t really go together I’m afraid. Binoculars on the other hand 😉
Cheap or expensive scopes???
That’s like saying useful or useless scopes
APO does not designate a "higher grade of optical glass". APO is short for apochromat which is a three-lens configuration at the main objective end to control light spread and chromatic aberration. This was very poorly explained in this video. Most sub-£300 spotting scopes forego a three-lens (apo) config in favour of an achromat (two lenses) where the addition of ED glass is much more critical to reduce chromatic aberration (CA). An APO is a very good way to reduce CA without having ED glass and is usually only found in spotting scopes £800+ although Helios do offer a 90mm APO spotting scope for around £200.
Turn of the street noise!!
It could be an excellent video, but the noise of the street make it very bad
Really wanted to watch this video but the cars on the road combined with soft talking was just horrible.
Great info, but horrible street noise. Why not walk a few yards into the woods before recording the discussion...
I found it very hard to understand this person. Perhaps if he had spoken into the microphone I would have understood him better.
Could hardly here you? Music was that loud next door neighbour came
knocking. Why was the so called music so loud?
People want to here you, so they can learn, There is no need at all for LOUD noise
cannot even call it music just NOISE!
Even AC/DC are not that loud?
Use the volume control.
This accent, gosh
Sorry - Expert's Brit accent was so soft and indistinct had to leave your site after minutes. American-English speaker.