I 84 Big Horn Sheep

[JNicholson]

Here's a short video of some Big Horn Sheep along I84 in Oregon that I digiscoped. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=12809de135d34af680eded8

John

 

[Rent Outdoor Gear]

Nice footage John - tell us about your setup. I'd love to have one of the ATX scopes - especially for digiscoping. That 95 was impressively clear.

 

[DWarcher]

Very cool...one of the highlights of our annual trek to Idaho each Thanksgiving is stopping to watch those sheep.

 

[Maah Daah Hey]

That is a cool video. Those pictures and video are very clear. I too am interested in your setup for digiscoping.

 

[JNicholson]

Nearly all of the video and stills were shot with a Swarovski STX Spotting Scope with the 95mm Ocular. I do believe I switched out the 95mm with the 65 for a little while but most of it is with the 95mm. The STX stands for Straight Telescope X series. My DLSR Camera is a Panasonic Lumix G3, it's not a very expensive camera but since digiscoping is new to me and the company issued it so I could learn. The camera lens on the system is also Swarovski and it is called the TLS APO and it comes with an attachment that slides right over the spotting scope for perfectly aligned photos and videos. There is one other adapter that lets the TLS APO bayonet into the Lumix camera so I get no vignetting regardless of the zoom.
I made a couple other nature videos using the system if you are interested. There's a really cool one with elk that I'll try to find if you want to watch it?

 

[JNicholson]

Here's another short video with elk using the same camera set up and the 65mm ocular lens. I'm really an amateur but it's fun learning with this gear.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=121a82f9c482f3d7bd25c98

John