Go beyond the Reach with Digiscoping

Me and Roy Halpin were talking about certain advantages and disadvantages that both conventional Photography and Digiscoping have  one of the main reasons was the focal length reach to small passerines especially in a crowded area such as the Magee Marsh Boardwalk  that pretty much hinders the big 500 to 600 mm lens useless exspecially at peak hours . So many Photographers resolve this issue by using a 300 to 400mm hand held system ,,that is good when the Bird such as a Warbler is no more than 15 feet distance from the lens with some cropping maybe adding up to about 700mm .

So me and Roy using both conventional and Digiscoping gear did a test on a Cerulean Warbler at about 100 feet both shots are uncropped .

Roy was using a Canon 7D with a Canon 300mm f4 lens.

I was using a Kowa 884 with the Sony RX100 with the 25/60 Wide Zoom eyepiece.

I was Zoomed to about the halfway on the optical Zoom on the RX-100, the eyepiece was at about 40 power giving me about 2800mm in focal length .

Roy Halpin"s capture.

Kevin Bolton's capture.

Appalacian Trail Blue Winged and Prairie Warblers

It is the Time of the Year again for myself to venture about to some of the fine Warbler Breeding areas New Jersey has to offer,,,one particular area I enjoy is the Wallkill WMA which is in Sussex county at the North West corner of the state.

The Appalachian trail runs through this stretch of the Wallkill, providing a good Grassland along with Cedar trees dotting the area perfect for Grasshopper Sparrows, Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlark and a few different Warblers being the predominate Blue Winged and Prairie .

Magee Marsh Stunners

I had a great week at Magee Marsh with Paul Hackett ,Roy Halpin and Annette Cunniffe ,with Kowa and the Digsco adapters.

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I  would say my highlight captures are my Blackburnian and Bay Breasted Warbler's.

There were plenty of more sought after species like Cerulean and Cape May Warblers.

There were many Common species keeping low within the canopy Yellow Warblers along with numerous Yellow Rumps .

Kowa+Digisco Turbo adapters @ The Biggest Week in American Birding

I have been aware of Digisco adapters for about 5 years now and always impressed with the craftsmanship of Yoshi Ishimaru, along with the adaptability with many Scope Camera combinations with Kowa being the main venue .

It is a great honor when Yoshi offered me and Paul Hackett Digisco samples to present and showcase along with all the great Kowa products including the new TSN-11WZ eyepiece at the Biggest Week in American Birding.  http://biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/

The products that  I have received from Mr Ishimaru .

1. CH-P11 Collete holder fits around the Filter thread base of the scope for support of the Eyepiece. 


2: BR-RX-100 Turbo Adapter for Sony RX-100

3: BR-N1 18.5 Turbo Adapter for Nikon 1 V1/V2/J1/J2  coupled with the Nikor 18.5 mm lens

4: BR-N1 1030 Turbo Adapter for  Nikon 1 V1/V2/J1/J2  coupled with the Nikor 10-30 mm lens.

5: P2 Turbo adapter  fits the TSN-11WZ/TSN-17WE

6: TA4 Turbo Adapter threads on to each specific adapter .


Here is Yoshi's  web page with translation along with links to Digisco for purchasing  product .

http://www.digisco.jp/

It is an honor to attend the Biggest Weekend in Birding .
 Kevin and Kim Kaufman are the founders of this event and put in an incredible effort for the conservation ,  to preserve this wonderful habitat for many species of migrants.

Chewink Shrenk Towhee time.

Had a semi productive time at garret mountain today ,,, but patience paid off and had a chance with a Eastern Towhee,,,

I am really liking the Digisco Turbo adapter for the RX-100 and it makes changing Battery's a breeze .

By the way I will be in Ohio for the Biggest week of Birding next week with Sales Manager Jim Danzenbaker,  Paul Hackett,,Roy Halpin along with Annette Jambloski representing Kowa.

More Black and White Warblers

Lighting was a bit on the better side today did mange one lethargic Black &White due to the cold weather.

Black@White and a touch of Yellow + Digisco Turbo Adapter BR-RX-100

Garret Mountain had some migrants tricking in ,,,but the weather was a bit cloudy with some drizzle,were a High ISO setting was in order , I also had a chance to use my new Digisco Turbo Adapter for the RX-100 which is a wonderful adapter .

Black & White Warblers are one of my favorites and there were quite a few around ,but were a bit of a challenge with the lighting and low shutter speed I did mange a few.

I also had a chance at a Flicker early at quite a distance.

So spring is here and the movement will continue with a myriad of species moving through hopefully I will get some good chances to update my catalog as I did my equipment.