Leica Digiscoping Capture close-up views of the fascinating spectacles of nature in pictures. To do so, simply combine a LEICA TELEVID Spotting Scope with a compact digital camera and you will have a photographic outfit with a super-telephoto lens ! Digiscoping will greatly expand your ability to observe the grandeur of nature.
LEICA DIGITAL ADAPTER 2
This is an especially compact and lightweight adapter for attaching a variety of compact digital cameras, such as the LEICA D-LUX 2 and camera phones, to the eyepieces of Leica Televid Spotting Scopes. The change from observation to picture-taking can be made easily and quickly without altering the settings on the camera.
Vertical or horizontal format – the
choice is yours Simply loosen the fastening of the eyepiece at the Digital Adapter 2 and rotate the adapter/camera combination and then decide for yourself whether the next picture would look better in a vertical or a horizontal composition. The LEICA DIGITAL ADAPTER 2 provides you with great freedom for creative picture composition.
Dalmatian Pelican / Butorides striatus
Leica Digiscoping – Using a digital camera to take pictures through the eyepiece of a Televid 62 or 77 spotting scope gives you the fantastic ability to take extreme close-up photographs of distant subjects in nature without disturbing them. The new LEICA DIGITAL ADAPTER 2 makes it possible to combine a spotting scope and a digital camera into a super-telephoto camera outfit with focal lengths of more than 2.000 mm. Leica offers you everything you need from a single source for an optimal digiscoping experience, with all the components in perfect optical harmony. Because they contain fluorite lens elements, the high-performance LEICA APO-TELEVID 77 Spotting Scopes are especially well suited for perfect digiscoping photographs that are rich in details and free of color fringes. The new LEICA D-LUX 2 Digital Camera with Mega O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilization) makes sure that your dream picture is not spoiled by camera shake, even in poor light and when extreme focal lengths are being used.
The photographs can later be refined on a computer by means of an image manipulation program. This software is supplied along with the LEICA D-LUX 2 camera. You can file your best pictures on your computer, you can print them out for your album, you can have them printed on high-grade photographic paper, you can incorporate them in your website, or you can submit them to photo- graphic magazines – Digiscoping makes all these applications possible ! The pictures shown here are intended to offer you an over- view of the quality of the images that you can achieve so conveniently with Leica Digiscoping.