Best Digital Cameras For Digiscoping People

It was a cheap 20X magnification straight scope and while it did help me “get closer” to the Yellow Buntings, I couldn’t use it meaningfully on other outings. What I really wanted was some way to capture photographic records of rare bird sightings.

While surfing the internet I started communicating with the late Laurence Poh on Birds-Pix. Laurence was pioneering an exciting concept call “Digiscoping” where the bird scope became a telephoto extension for a digital camera.

The birds-pix forum back then was an all Malaysian affair where Laurence and friends were posting incredible mind blowing digital photographs of beautiful Malaysian birds. A digiscoping setup was relatively affordable when compared the cost of a 35mm SLR camera with a 600mm telephoto lens.

It was also digital and this made it easier to share bird sightings on the internet. Laurence provided me with the contact of a shop in Singapore and I lost no time in acquiring a digiscoping combo identical to his.

It was a new and wonderful experience as the Lieca scope made the birds larger than life plus I could quickly hand-hold the Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera over the scope’s aperture to capture a photographic record. I have no knowledge in photography and learned by simply experimenting with the digiscoping combo plus helpful emails from Laurence.

It didn’t take me long to be the first Singaporean to start contributing bird photographs to Birds-Pix. While I never got a chance to get a photographic record of those Yellow Buntings, digiscoping did set me on a very fulfilling course to record many beautiful birds all around the island of Singapore. A grateful tribute to the late Laurence Poh, the father of digiscoping. See different digiscoping combos at the late Laurence's site.

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