Below are some images illustrating the very significant advantages provided by the new Digiscoping Eyepiece from EagleEye.

When normal eyepieces are used for Digiscoping with a camcorder there are several disadvantages due to the high magnification powers that generally have to be used.

This stems from the fact that with most camcorders in order to get beyond the vignetting ( dark edges on the images ) it is necessary to zoom the camcorder usually to at least 50% of it's zoom power.

On a 10x zoom power camcorder this means that you generally need to zoom to around 5x or 6x, a camcorder with a 20x zoom power would need to go to about 10x or 12x.

Because the resulting magnification is the power of the eyepiece multiplied by the camcorder zoom setting it means that even if you were using only a 15x power eyepiece ( such as the Swarovski 15x eyepiece used below ) the minimum magnification that you would have to work at to avoid getting vignetting would likely be 75x / 90x (or 150x / 180x ). If you were using a 20x eyepiece the minimums would be even more horrendous 100x / 120x ( or 200x / 240x ).

Therefore the ability to Digiscope at lower camcorder zoom settings is a very real advantage both in terms of the practical usability of the magnification power and the fact that you have available most of the camcorder zoom range without vignetting - this is what our new Digiscoping Eyepiece allows you to do and you can see the big advantages in the 'videograb' and digital still images below.

Click here to see sample images taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 still camera using the Digiscoping Eyepiece mounted on a Leica APO77 scope