More Hand-Held Digiscoping - 17 Aug 2018

I spent the afternoon running around the back yard w/ the Swarovski STX85 Spotting Scope and Sony a6300 and Digidapter™ to see how I could do digiscoping w/o a tripod. This setup, with the 30mm Sigma lens gives an effective focal length of 25x30x1.5=1125mm. Hand-held.

This Ruby-throated Hummingbird was being harassed by a male near the feeders, so I took the opportunity to photograph them with the rig. Shooting 10fps at 1/1000th of a second under ISO Auto helped overcome the lack of any stabilization.  I'm very happy with the results.