Spotters Post your Spotting scope images!

[Diver160651]

Just thought it would be interesting to see how many people would share some of their images through their spotting scopes.

Over the years I’ve owned most of the names. I wish I had a place to see a verity of images from both cheap and expensive glass in one spot to help me see and decide what is “good enough” for me. Hopefully you guys will post some too and over time this may become helpful to someone-

Post yours up!

Here are a few to start: - phone photos and videos using phone Skope adapter (obviously they will all be better with the naked eye)

Swaroski ATX


Swaroski ATX 1,000 yards


Bushnell Legend 700 yards focused for trace-

 

[Steel head]

 

[Steel head]

Kinda badly focused look through a Kowa 883 at targets at 1790 yards but you can see the natural colors.
Really nice spotter!

 

[Schaaf]

Meostar S2

 

[Secant]

Gen1 Vortex Razor 16-48x65 with PhoneSkope and ~4 year old iPhone. Antelope were 1 - 2 miles out IIRC.

238,900 miles away.

Thinking pretty hard about a Meostar S2

 

[Cardboard Assassin]

Swarovski ATX 95mm with an iPhone 8 taking the video, distance is 500, temp was around 38C or 100F that day hence the mirage.

 

[SmileMaker]

Leupold Mk4 12-40x60 at 1000yds




KOWA 25-60x88 at 1 mile video screenshot

 

[NoLegs24]

Oh crap, you’re asking for spotting scope pics. My bad...

 

[Cardboard Assassin]

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Oh crap, you’re asking for spotting scope pics. My bad...

Nature at its finest

 

[kyzim311]

Vortex Viper HD 20-60 and Pixel 3. Mirage kills some of the videos, but a very good setup for the money. Square plate is a 12" at 1000 yards, round is 18" at a mile.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RnBQ7x5jZJCYcQWL7

 

[hic28]

 

[Red1993sol]

 

[Red1993sol]

 

[545riflefan]

Bushnell Spacemaster 15-45x60

steel at 1000 yards thunder valley

hummingbird on the feeder.

super impressed with this spotter.

 

[gopherslayer]

Limiting factor is my phone and holder. When I upgrade phones I’m getting a better holder. iPhone 8+ and a cheapy universal holder from cameraland. Athlon Cronus 20-60.

 

[gopherslayer]

 

[SourMash]

@Diver160651 Thanks for this post, I'm enjoying these pictures from various spotters.

 

[BBVDD]

Vortex Razor gen 2 22-48x65. Tried holding the phone as the phon Skope doesn’t have holder for the new iPhone yet.

Old phone in phon Skope. These were around 400yds at the range during an f-class match.
I hate turkeys so much.

 

[Jakeweb09]

Both these are from a vortex 11-33x50 razor handholding my phone, scope is pretty good for the price and weight! However I hate the non adjustable soft rubber eye cap.

 

[Mike Casselton]

30+ year old Bausch & Lomb 22x60mm fixed spotter at 500yds. Pine tree on a windy day.
Pic is from the $80 Spot Shot wifi Camera system.

Focus could have been better, but it was windy AF.

 

[seansmd]

Swaro SLC15x56

 

[Jakeweb09]

Swaro SLC15x56
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definitely amazing from some binos. Great images!

 

[hic28]

 

[StrayDog]

Quick phone shot between spotting and shooting...

 

[theLBC]

meteor shower tonight, but it is cloudy here.

 

[StrayDog]

One more, O @ 350y and J @ 700y, picture is clearer and crisper in life, meh, Leupy Mk4 H32 at min 12x power iirc

 

[bunsen27]

So I finally had a chance this week to unbox my new Kowa 884 from Camerland NY. I'm using an iPhone SE (gen 2) in a phone skope case and the Camera+ app. For those new to digiscoping I highly recommend watching this online workshop Kowa did w/phone skope earlier this year. I've queued it up past much of the very basic intro stuff. Definitely consider a remote shutter option. I got a $5 off of Amazon that works great.



The scope is amazing but I'm still struggling to capture with the iphone what my eye sees. Even "locking" the iphones focus point and using the remote shutter I'm still getting slightly out of focus images. Photography is an old hobby of mine and not achieving perfect focus is quite annoying. I'm planning on pulling out my DSLR and trying it out once my adapter arrives. This will give me 100% absolute control over the focus of the image. Weather wise we had lots of rain this week and the only distant object I had to work with other than pine trees was the local water tower 0.86 miles away. I cropped out the vignetting.

 

[seansmd]

Sunset on Bald Mtn

 

[seansmd]

 

[MOUNTIC]

Forward spotting for the 2.5 mile target. Hurry up and shoot before the mirage picks up.

 

[Big_Kumar]

Leupold Gold Ring 12-40 HD last year during a service rifle match in Quantico.

 

[Shooting blanks]

Good trace shot

 

[Diver160651]

if you guys don't mind please post the brand, model of the spotter or binos, and the distance for the images. If you used anything like a DSLR that would be key as the images will be many times better from the same spotter than an iPhone or whatever. I don't think we need t get too far in the weeds and post your actual distance for crazy far off objects like a celestial image of the Moon 420,464,000 yards away, lol

I think as we do it gives people a good idea of what they can expect.

Thanks again you guys rock!

 

[bunsen27]

I'm still figuring out this digiscoping thing, but my captured image & video quality has improved greatly. Using Camera+ set to manual focus has helped eliminate the constant iPhone auto-focus tweaking. Also, turning the eye cup out farther appears to have helped too.

Kowa 884 w/ TE-11WZ 25-60x wide zoom eye piece / phone skope / iPhone SE (2020) / camera+ app

200yds @~50x

60x

I just downloaded a new camera app to test out:

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[Lowlight]

1780 and 1825

 

[hic28]

 

[m1match]

Serge, what spotting scope is that image through?? If I had to guess I would guess a Vectronix but not a Terrapin or Terrapin X. Maybe a PLRF-25?

 

[hic28]

Serge, what spotting scope is that image through?? If I had to guess I would guess a Vectronix but not a Terrapin or Terrapin X.

Vector 4

 

[SmileMaker]

420 yds, Leupold Mk4 12x40

 

[J McGriddle]

Bushnell Legend HD 20-60 taken thru a Pixel 3, no phone skope.

 

[Triton225]

Athlon chronus ed 20-60x86 I think I was on 60x

 

[Triton225]

Maybe this was the 60x. Heck I don't know

 

[m1match]

Vector 4

Nice!! Nothing like $15,000 for outstanding glass and range finding.

 

[Kingbird87]

Carl Zeiss Aus Jena 63/420 Asiola DDR East German Spotter
I first saw these for sale in West Germany around 1985 as some came in from behind the Iron Curtain and were for sale at the Rhein Main AB Rod and Gun Club. Finally got one from a guy in Florida last year, the first two pictures are his. And of course this guy is from the former DDR. Even came with the goatskin bag. Fantastic and heavy scope. Came with the Zeiss Ortho 16-0 eyepiece which is 26x. This one is about as clear as the Unertl Team Scope I used shooting for the Tennessee All Guard High Power Team in the 80's and 90's.

 

[Starbuck]

Sexist, misogynist, hurtful, offensive and hilarious 100y targets at the recently-cancelled Boulder Rifle Club Rimfire Match.

Spotter 60. AA Targets. Shoutout to owner @banks74!

 

[NoLegs24]

Nice!! Nothing like $15,000 for outstanding glass and range finding.

Your price isn't our price, Ted

 

[Mr.BR]

 

[Steel head]

 

[Steel head]

 

[SepticDeath]

1 mile steel. Athlon Ares UHD 15x45x65