The lazy/cheap approach to birding with your smart phone

[David_B]

Birding With DWARF 3 Smart Telescope

Meet DWARF 3: Smart telescopes for exciting tracking experiences.

dwarflab.com

I don't do bird photography so I can't comment about how good this is, only to say that the glossy demo/pictures/videos look deceptively good. And yes, I'm sure they cherry picked a scenario for the video, it's advertising afterall.

 

[Click]

Thanks for sharing. Personally, as long as I can handle my camera with large lenses, I will use this option. It's part of my philosophy in bird photography.

 

[Del Paso]

I looked at the demo too.
It leaves me very skeptical as to the gear actually used. A bit too good to be true...

 

[P-visie]

It has a Sony IMX678 Starvis 2 sensor with a diagonal 8.86 mm (type 1/1.8), i.e. smaller than the main sensor of a recent iPhone. So I would not expect a high image quality.

 

[AlanF]

It's really a digital telescope, not a camera. It has only an 8.4 mpx sensor with a 4.9 crop factor. In terms of reach, with its 150mm lens it is equivalent to a 300mm on an R5 or 430mm on an R3 or R6, not the 735mm stated, which is a field of view factor. The f-number is 4.3, which has the depth of field equivalent of f/21 of FF. So, you can take its claim of "enchanting bokeh" with the large pinch of salt.

I saw one once being used. It's OK as a digital telescope but not for photography.

 

[EricN]

I looked at the demo too.
It leaves me very skeptical as to the gear actually used. A bit too good to be true...

It's a video about a dwarf telescope hosted on a dwarf website... I don't even need to click it to know EVERYTHING is 1000% the TRUTH!!! Because the ufo people in another dimension told me I will know everything after I ate some candy and mushrooms some backpackers that were sleeping behind the convenience store forgot when they suddenly woke up and ran away.

 

[Del Paso]

It's a video about a dwarf telescope hosted on a dwarf website... I don't even need to click it to know EVERYTHING is 1000% the TRUTH!!! Because the ufo people in another dimension told me I will know everything after I ate some candy and mushrooms some backpackers that were sleeping behind the convenience store forgot when they suddenly woke up and ran away.

QAnon certified. I'll buy one !
And I will post some bigly beautiful videos and pictures here!

 

[David_B]

It's a video about a dwarf telescope hosted on a dwarf website..

Careful there, there are real people that fit into the "dwarf" category, not just those that live in Moria, just ask the actors who played Ewoks - some of whom got told they were too tall! But when compared to even a 300mm lens + full frame camera, it does look a bit challenged for size.

It has a Sony IMX678 Starvis 2 sensor with a diagonal 8.86 mm (type 1/1.8), i.e. smaller than the main sensor of a recent iPhone. So I would not expect a high image quality.

You don't need many MP to post on social media.... and social media doesn't need high quality, only high "wow".

It's really a digital telescope, not a camera. It has only an 8.4 mpx sensor

2MP is enough, the only difference between 8MP and 32MP is how much downsamling is done before posting to IG or TT.

with a 4.9 crop factor. In terms of reach, with its 150mm lens it is equivalent to a 300mm on an R5 or 430mm on an R3 or R6, not the 735mm stated, which is a field of view factor. The f-number is 4.3, which has the depth of field equivalent of f/21 of FF. So, you can take its claim of "enchanting bokeh" with the large pinch of salt.

Bokeh is now something that can be done in software. Just like we don't need lenses producing pictures that fill the entire frame, we don't need lenses that create bokeh. Software correction to the rescue!