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Fun With Optics

A digital camera and a pair of binoculars seem like unrelated items, but wait! They can live together harmoniously!

These photos were taken with a Sony digital camera, and were augmented by a 10x standard binocular placed up to the lens. The targets in each case are centered in the framing photos. Captions explain further.

I expect I would have more clear results if I had a tripod or some other stablization. Also, I could get cleaner framing if I weren't just holding the binocular eyepiece up to the camera lens, and instead had some sort of mount.

photo photo
No Binoculars
Zoomed Out
10x25 Binoculars
Macro Mode
photo photo
No Binoculars
Zoomed Out
No Binoculars
Zoomed In (8x)
photo photo
10x50 Binoculars
Standard Mode
Auto focus
10x50 binoculars
Standard Mode
Manual focus 0.9m

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