By Saucerhead TharpePosted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:13 GMT
ANd they are OK. I find it best to look through with my eye and focus in on what I wish to photograph, and then put iit in the clip and take the picture.
You also need soemwhere to brace your phone and arm.
By Tony BarnesPosted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:32 GMT
..it doesn't get around the vignette problem that I first encountered doing exactly this with a mates set of binoculars and my old 6280. A reason why I never went to the next step of building anything "grander"
IF they got around that, I'd probably buy one, as it was fun taking long distance shots..
By Sean AaronPosted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:43 GMT
Digital zoom blows because it's limited to whatever data is in the original shot and looks like crap when sourced from a 2mp camera, but if I could attach one of these to my Nokia 6288 I might get some decent shots from farther away than two metres.
By Torcuill TorrancePosted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:23 GMT
At the recent lunar eclipse (3rd March) I took this gallery of photos using my Sony K750i camera phone held up to my Meade 12inch aperture LightBridge astronomical telescope. With a focal length of 1.5metres it slightly out classes the little scope above.
By Tim GreenwoodPosted Wednesday 7th November 2007 21:38 GMT
Basically it is just a cheap monocular and a plastic clip to fix it to a phone etc.
As others have pointed out you can get the same effect with any old binoculars you have lying around. Indeed about 25 years ago, long before digital I used a pair of binoculars to add zoom to a 35mm compact camera I had in order to get a shot of a nuclear submarine that surfaced near to where we were sailing. The problem back then was actually getting the subject in the frame as compact film cameras had neither through the lens views or a screen giving the final image. I has some success but the vignetting was as bad then as appears this time.
By mikePosted Thursday 8th November 2007 09:42 GMT
I also used the binocular technique with an SE K700i - the problem with game viewing in Zim is that the animals tend to be rather far away - and dangerous. An American hitch-hiker we picked up (in Zimbabwe, 2005 - lack of food and any transport caught him by surprise) got a nice shot illustrating the set-up.
Comments on: Extend your phone's camera - with a telescope
I actually have had one of these for a while #
By Saucerhead Tharpe Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:13 GMT
Vignetting #
By Nev Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:20 GMT
hmmmm... #
By andy rock Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:21 GMT
Hmmm #
By A. Lewis Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:31 GMT
Nice, but... #
By Tony Barnes Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:32 GMT
This sounds clever #
By Sean Aaron Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 16:43 GMT
Get a real telescope on it! #
By Torcuill Torrance Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 17:23 GMT
Why offer it in colors? #
By Mike Powers Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 18:29 GMT
Nothing clever #
By Tim Greenwood Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 21:38 GMT
Craptacular #
By Tim Bates Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 02:58 GMT
"Get a real camera" #
By fergal Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 08:51 GMT
Optical zoom on an SE K700i #
By mike Posted Thursday 8th November 2007 09:42 GMT