Cheap monocular/binoculars...great for pics from phones

[Greenheart]

I take it that your phone doesn't have a zoom facility.

Phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2. The pictures can be zoomed-in, after capture...but using the digital zoom to enlarge the image prior to capture, causes a really inferior final picture, which can't be usefully enlarged...

...whereas, using the little monocular adds range to this tiny camera, but still allows the final pic to be zoomed massively on the PC with good definition...up to a point.

 

[Scillypete]

I would probably agree, if I could find a reference point to relate the two images.

The chimney pot and fir tree are visible in the first pic slightly right of centre

 

[Greenheart]

Dammit, Pete, you beat me to it!

I would probably agree, if I could find a reference point to relate the two images.

Look at the chimney pot of the house in the first image, and the green firs above and to the left of that small central area...

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...that is the magnified field of view, shown in the second image:

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[Alistairr]

I quite often taken pics with my basic camera through my bins.

Results can be varied.

Basking Shark in the Clyde.

I quite like this too.

Cheers
Al.

 

[Greenheart]

I reckon it makes a great extension of use to the basic phone-camera, as long as it doesn't have to require you to carry a lot of fragile, heavy, awkward kit around...

...hence I like the tough, cheap little 10x monocular.

I haven't tried photographing through one of those massive 120x zoom spotting scopes. I get the impression it's a work of diminishing returns...a much bigger scope doesn't necessarily mean a much better or closer image.

 

[Greenheart]

Dug out my nice old 7x50 binocs today. Awesome Zeiss lenses. Clarity, brightness, broad field of view. Makes my £8 toy look exactly that...cheap.