What is digiscoping?

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If you spend any amount of time around nature enthusiasts and passionate photographers, you will inevitably hear ‘digiscoping’ mentioned. As its name suggests, digiscoping is a photography method that involves using a pair of binoculars, spotting scope or a telescope with a digital camera to capture images from a great distance.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF DIGISCOPING?

By combining a smart phone, GoPro, or Tablet camera with a powerful scope, you can capture images that are inaccessible from a short distance. Nature photographers often use digiscoping to capture images of skittish or dangerous animals from a safe area. Digiscoping may also be useful for taking photographs of specific landscape scenes from an overlook. Birders commonly use scope-camera combinations that have magnifications of 20X to 80X, so digiscoping can capture images beyond the reach of normal digital cameras zoom with clarity and focus.  

While this method certainly has a wide range of applications for nature photography, some skilled photographers use digiscoping for astrophotography, and even microbiology. With the magnification and light absorption capabilities of high-quality scopes, astrophotographers can use digital cameras to capture images of asteroids, planets, star clusters, and distant galaxies. Some of the most popular digiscoping photos are of the super moons as of late.

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Digiscoping Equipment Basics

With proper digiscoping equipment, you can capture images of rare birds, wildlife and objects that are thousands of light-years away from Earth. Poor equipment can result in images that are blurry and unpleasant, so take some time to consider the factors that can affect your photography experience.

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