ABOUT PHONESCOPING
What do you need to get start:
- Mobilephone with integrated camera
- Spotting scope with stabile tripod
- Adapter to connect your mobile to the scope
- ( PC, software and additional equipments to get pictures from your mobile to your PC )
- ( Graphics sw and noise reducing sw )
Digiscoping vs. phonescoping:
- You always carry mobile with you
- Mobile camera is simple to use, no complex adjustments
- Quality of the pictures is good enough to use in internet or other electronic media
- You can immediately send your shot to your friends in all around the world
In practice:
- find a bird to the field of your scopes view
- focus the object sharp
- fit mobile firmly to the ocular
- refocus using lcd-display
- shot first photo using capture key
- shot more pictures using timer or sequence mode
- if object is stabile, check focusing between shots
- take as many pictures as possible to ensure your success to get superfine results
How to process pictures:
- I use two methods depending on the need of use picture as documentation purposes:
1. Identification purpose
- If picture will be used as part of ID I don´t process it at all except balance of brightness ( original will be attached )
2. Pictures in my www-pages
- Pictures in my web-pages are processed using photoshop and noise redusing sw with out NO LIMITS! I process pictures as much as I am satisfied to the result
- Noise redusing sw has been very useful tool