Post by ianr on Nov 9, 2018 12:14:52 GMT
I've never been a real birder, not the dash around the country for a tick or sit in a hide for hours on end type but over the last year or two I've had an incline to try a spot of digiscoping. With the wonder of the web it's easy to go window shopping and create a wish list 
Well I'm not going to spend that kinda money just to scratch an itch, far to tight for that I'm thinking I'll just keep an eye out see what comes along and last week on ebay I noticed a vintage scope 15x45 by 60 bushnell spacemaster possibly 70s maybe earlier.
I use bushnell binoculars there good and Vintage jap glass should be fine
So 42 quid later I'm now the proud owner of a scope it looks as though it's spent all it's life in the box the glass and internals are clean and bright the controls smooth, not a mark on it, naturally the glass won't be multi coated and the eye piece could be bigger with better eye relief. I'll get used to that now I'm going to hunt down a fixed magnification wider angle eye piece 'any ideas 25x or 35x ??' and some way of screwing my camera to it the eye piece being is only 35mm dia might be awkward it'll be doable I'm sure time will tell.
Took it to Besthorpe today
ian
Well I'm not going to spend that kinda money just to scratch an itch, far to tight for that I'm thinking I'll just keep an eye out see what comes along and last week on ebay I noticed a vintage scope 15x45 by 60 bushnell spacemaster possibly 70s maybe earlier.
I use bushnell binoculars there good and Vintage jap glass should be fine
So 42 quid later I'm now the proud owner of a scope
it looks as though it's spent all it's life in the box the glass and internals are clean and bright the controls smooth, not a mark on it, naturally the glass won't be multi coated and the eye piece could be bigger with better eye relief. I'll get used to that now I'm going to hunt down a fixed magnification wider angle eye piece 'any ideas 25x or 35x ??' and some way of screwing my camera to it the eye piece being is only 35mm dia might be awkward it'll be doable I'm sure time will tell.Took it to Besthorpe today
ian
more research required there are other methods out there.