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Originally Posted by dafi
I have been digiscopeing for the last threeyears and enjoying it heaps. The gear i use is realy basic. I use a 2mp kodakcx6230 shooting thru a tasco 15to45 x 50 scope. The scope is one of the strait thru type.The tasco gives verry little ca compered to my bigger 45degree scope although i only use the mag up to 30x or so. The camera is set on macro and i use one or more times mag to frame my subject. Most of my digi scopeing is of birds and my quick release plate is bolted to my tripod head for security[after several close calls and one expensive acident]. This is quite limiting in the field . When i need to use the better scope. So i think this maybe the time to change to a dslr. However my problem is that i know nothing about dslr's and need some advice. Could some one tell me what lens size would be equivalent to the mag of my scope?. Recomend a camera body that would serve a total beginer. Bearing in mind that cost is a serious issue to me.Any other relevant advice would be verry welcome as well.Thanks Daf
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Hi dafi
Welcome to WPF.
I'm afraid your jump from digiscoping to DSLR photography is not as straight forward as you imagine, to obtain an equivalent image magnification on a DSLR combo compared to that available through digiscoping you would need a monstrous lens, which quite frankly is not available, even if such a lens were available the cost would be enormous. Having said all that it's possible to obtain excellent images with a more modest set up, I don't know what your financial situation is, or what sort of price range you are looking at. but you should be able to knock up a useable DSLR and lens set up for approx £1000 to £1500. A DSLR camera body which will give you all the quality you need such as the Nikon D80 or Canon EOS 400D, coupled with a quality big zoom lens such as the Tamron 200-500 will give you a good entry into DSLR wildlife photography. A combination such as this is capable of excellent results, but you will need to learn new skills in bushcraft in order to get close enough to your subject. Add a short zoom such as a Nikkor 18-70 and a 1.4 converter such as the Kenko Teleplus DG 1.4X Pro 300 and you're set up. The rest is up to you and the subject.
nirofo.