Tips for Digiscoping with your Smartphone

In this video, photographer David Flores gives some tips on pairing your smartphone to a spotting scope such as the Vanguard Endeavor XF 80A. Using the Carson Hookupz 2.0, you can directly attach your smartphone to the spotting scope, much like you would a traditional camera, to get some incredible telephoto images.

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[HiddenPalm]

There were no "tips" in this video, just get a smartphone adapter and get a tripod that moves in all accesses. Those arent tips, those are prerequisites.

[TimKaseyMythHealer]

None of these digiscoping videos cover the truth, they are selling concepts, but don't have any experience in the field.

Smart phone digiscoping is extremely limited to stable objects at a distance that you are only going to focus once, and then install the phone to focus and shoot.

The most critical component with moving objects at a distance, or landscapes with objects at 2.5 miles and 3 miles, and that is nearly impossible to control is focus. When you have your phone mounted, you can't adjust the scope independently without removing the phone. Phones are not made with a bypass allowing you to refocus the scope separately form the camera, you must first remove the phone to refocus the scope. No subject stays in one place, and if you are doing a panorama of a mountain range, the focus will go in and out as you move along the mountain range. If you don't have an f-stop of something high like f11, (smart phones have like f.2.8) you are not going to have a landscape in focus. Smart phone digiscoping is extremely limited to stable objects at a distance that you are only going to focus once, and then install the phone to focus and shoot.

[teresainil]

What tripod did you use to hold that spotting scope safely? Thanks.

[jackreckitt]

please do more programs on digiscoping

[JohnDoe-vqbg]

B & H camera are awesome! Love these great people! Just another customer!

[rorymax]

What a waste of time watching this, I agree with HiddenPalm
1 year ago
There were no "tips" in this video, just get a smartphone adapter and get a tripod that moves in all accesses. Those arent tips, those are prerequisites.

[rogerbreton]

Do they have adapter for iPhone 11 Pro already?

[pbsalfen]

When I first saw the amount of dislikes/views ratio I thought this was an Adorama upload.

[jeffpaster]

barely scratched the surface of the topic, and offered no tips om how to get the most out of pairing a smart phone to a scope using an adapter

[pros]

Wheres the tip? You only point out what you need, not how to take photos or videos.

[adubeauify]

what a waste of time nothing but a sales pitch

[jonb]

So much for detailed tips😕 Just a sales pitch for the scope.

[trident]

Vanguard scopes are not that good, at higher magnification they perform very dull better switch to Nikon monarch series they are the best.