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I never heard of that. I am assuming you plug your phone into the spotting scope somehow and look at your phone screen instead of the eyepiece of the spotting scope. Sounds like just something else to mess with and turn something simple complicated.

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The world is passing us by John. They are now making attachments like he's probably talking about that you can take photos with your phone and/or camera by attaching it to your spotting scope eyepiece. Here is one of a big bull elk and his small harem out in Nevada that a guy took through his spotting scope and that elk was at least two miles away from us! It's not a real good picture because the distance was so far, but if you look real close up in the lower area of that pocket of timber in the upper center of the circle you can make out the whitish rack and his body. He's just barely in the shade right above the line of sunlight below him.

I made him out. Top it can pass me by, I kinda like the world the way it was, when you used a phone to make and receive phone calls. I wouldn't be surprised if in another hundred years people will be born with goose necks so it won't be an effort to walk around looking down instead of straight ahead. :D

I know exactly what you mean and I'm sure not into all this new hi tech stuff either. I'm happy with my old flip phone and could give a rip about having all the features of these new ones that everyone has in their ear or doing business on most of the day now!

When compact digital cameras came out, I was excited to be able to have a camera with me more often to capture photos and videos more often, and with less bulk than the Sony Mavica camera I had before that which stored pictures on 3.5" floppy disks, which was less bulk than the Polaroid camera I carried in my pack for years before digital cameras came around. Now, I don't even need a camera, as my phone takes as good of photos as the compact digital cameras from just a few years ago. I personally think it's an advantage to be able to capture memories more easily and more readily. It's fun to reminisce through memories in your head, but I'm always reminded of things I hadn't thought about in years whenever I pull up physical or digital photos.

As for the phone skope - I take photos through my spotting scopes, rifle scopes, and range finders all of the time, and having adapters to make it easier to hold them together is pretty handy. I got a phone to scope adapter a few years ago for Christmas, wanna say it was a Caldwell, then I picked up a Vortex adapter for free when I ordered through an instructor program this summer, they're pretty handy, but I rarely remember to take them afield.

I had an adapter to attach a spotting scope to a camera body many years ago, now it's just a lot lighter and easier to take a high quality zoom photo with a cell phone clamped to my spotting scope, and actually less expensive than it used to be. Not to mention, my smart phone also lets me check HNI while I'm in the field, eating lunch in the deer stand, and instead of taking a paperback book to read, my phone has my kindle books on it too, let alone letting me take pictures from my stand through my range finder as a magnifying lens of deer walking within feet of my position...

I've also really enjoyed some of the clip on lenses available now for cell phone cameras, whether it's using a macro lens to photograph brass headstamp detail or firearm parts, or a mini telephoto zoom lens for taking pictures of game in the field, it's really amazing how much miniature photography equipment is available - after spending thousands and thousands of dollars on photography equipment over the years, I'm really glad to be able to have some of the same opportunities with the camera I carry every day. Then again, I'm into photography, and in my business, I almost always have 4 connected cellular devices on me at all times, so I'm inured to inundation by the tech, whether I like it or not.

Of course, it's kind of on the nose to point out the hypocrisy inherent whenever a Luddite posts online...

ROTF :groupwave::groupwave:

LMAO!!!!! Okay now THAT was funny I dun care who ya are!!! lmao "Luddite" ( walks away from computer giggling making the wife think I've lost me mind )

Not really all that funny, one day you might wish our young people were more of Luddite since many can't do simple math in their heads and can't make change without a computerized cash register that tells them how much to give. Just look around you, how many people are walking or sitting while looking down at a smart phone, how many people can't stand to be out of reach of their phone all day long. When technology becomes your life instead of helping you in your life and becomes the master and you the slave, there is a problem and we are getting close to that now. I will be Luddite if it makes you happy, however I don't fear technology, I just won't be a slave to it.

What ^ he said!!!

Same here. I don't fear technology and I know how to use technology but I still know how to read a compass and use an actual map, navigate by dead reckoning and the stars, estimate ranges in my head, calculate bullet drop based in field experience, process my own game, work on my own cars and not be afraid of the sound of my own company. I neither want nor require to be constantly connected to other people via electronic gadgets and I also refuse to become a slave to them!

Amen flags, Amen!!! :rock:

always said NMs a highly intelligent collage educated redneck, I'll now revise that, he's a highly intelligent collage educated high tech redneck puter geek all he posted is over my head
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So much love, I feel... ;-)

Careful or they'll have you teaching classes. :D

This thread is too funny!

Yup. Prolly a lot of similar conversations about smokeless power, lever actions, semi-automatics, etc. You can likely still find a few of these conversations between traditional and in-line smokepoles in the BP forum. :s3:

It's all fun and games until the batteries die. :)

I've always been a big believer in redundancy. I always bring more than one firearm. I don't even trust rifle scopes, all my mounts are removable and my rifles have iron sights. I'm never without two compasses.

Murphys law is my mantra, "anything that can go wrong will go wrong". And I'm a firm believer in the KISS principle, "keep it simple stupid".

Military maneuver June 14 1975, out of a hundred and thirty guys, including Officers, I was the only one who had his winter gear with him. 15 degrees F, 30 MPH wind, pretty much a blizzard, the snow got knee deep in a couple of hours. I had one Officer tell me "you know I can order you to give me your Parka", you can imagine what my answer was to that. :) The old saying, "Plan for the worst and hope for the best" really helped me out that day.

Technology is neat, I'm not going to put to much trust in it. When you run out of options is when things get hairy. And the more complex something is the more likely it is to fail.

Whenever the older generations pile on and stereotype the younger generations, it's just as easy to hand a stereotype right back and point out the older generation leaps to an assumption without actually knowing anything about the younger generation - which a lot of folks might say is the driving force behind the lower quality of folks in the younger generations. Blame your kids and grandkids for being low-quality, but remember, they're YOUR kids and grandkids.

The easiest retort in this kind of thread - prove to me that using new technology excludes knowledge of the old. Prove to me using a GPS or smartphone to navigate excludes younger generation folks from knowing how to read maps and compasses. Many here seem to want to jump on a bandwagon and hold the old ways above new technology, but prove to me your comments are anything more than a stereotype - prove to me the fact we're all using computers to type here excludes us from the ability to use a typewriter. Prove to me navigating by electronic compass bearing and topos in a handheld GPS will negate the same skillset for paper maps and magnetic compasses? Why does being young mean a guy can't read wind? Was it windier 30yrs ago so no younger shooter has ever had to deal with wind?

If we want to talk stereotypes: You wanna know how SOME of the older generation of hunters taught me to dope my rifle? Cut the lid off of a box of factory ammo of the same bullet weight and tape it to your stock. That's no joke - there were two guys in their 60's in my uncle's hunting camp when I was a kid who had flaps from remington or winchester ammo boxes taped to their rifle, even though they were shooting reloads! I could name a few older hunters, from 50+ to 80+ years old who I find very difficult to respect because of how they choose their quarry - every damned year I help them go hunt, then they take 5 shots to kill a fawn barely out of spots, simply because it was the first deer they saw, and they "hunt for meat, not horns," regardless of whether the deer was mature or not. Luckily, my family taught me better than those old fools.

Older generations often criticize the younger generations for this - "kids just don't read anymore..." However, studies has proven the opposite is actually true - kids spend more hours per week reading today than at any point in the history of man - they just read from a screen instead of a piece of paper.

There have been schitheads in every generation - my great grandpa, born in 1913, used to tell a story about his first cousin who came to live with them during the Great Depression because his parents wouldn't let him move back home as a grown man because he couldn't take care of himself - he'd never studied in school, and never paid attention to learn how to be of use on our ranch, nor did he have any work ethic. One of my uncles ran off to California in the 1970's and was a hippy living in his van - he was largely worthless until his 30's when he knocked up a girlfriend, took a huge amount of debt to go back to school, and finally found a work ethic. In the next generation, I've employed interns who have been more productive, hard working, and skilled than half of my colleagues 20-30yrs their senior. I've also rejected interns who wouldn't get out of bed if a super model offered to make them breakfast in the nude. Studies have proven the "millenials" to actually have a stronger desire to work and a greater sense of social duty than the last two generations before them - i.e. the two generations which criticize them the most.

But after 2 pages - I still fail to see how any pedantic ageism has anything to do with using a cell phone to take photos through a spotting scope - folks have been using spotting scopes and telescopes as zoom lenses for cameras for as long as a camera has existed. Certainly nothing the younger generation came up with, so I'm not really sure how all of this came to be in the first place.

The initial post I wrote, simply asked what folks thought of their phone scopes and any little things a person should be aware of, pretty straight forward. As you read, the first response was not constructive, just someone who has too much time on their hands and believes he is the know all, end all. He has stated he was a warden in Penn., hmm....I am betting a phone scope apparatus would be very helpful in law enforcement situations. I actually have found out some very helpful info on other forums, but it is sad that people feel they need to insert themselves into a topic they themselves say they have no interest in.

Your opinion is very helpfull for me. Thank you so much.

when i seen the first post i couldnt figure out what it was about and concluded it must have been X-rated or deleted.

Discovery Optics and scopes have mobile phone adapter for capturing live videos, its a good solution.

Timely revival to this thread. I just picked up an iscope at the NRA National Convention this weekend. I’m anxious to see how it works out. I haven’t had a unit with adjustable eye relief this simple in the past, it appears to be quite well made, albeit a bit heavy, and very adjustable. The clamp is able to hold both my I6s and my Ix, in or out of my Lifeproof cases, which is a huge leg up over all of my other digiscoping units. I prefer the design of the sideshow product, where I still look through my scope as normal, whereas the iscope means I have to use the phone screen as my sighting device... I’m pretty used to doing this, and I think it might even be an advantage in my specialty pistols with rifle scopes.

I haven’t had it on the range yet, but I’ll try to remember to follow up with a review this weekend when I get back on the range.