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Originally posted by Evan K.:
I like taking photos through scopes whenever possible, and the Canon S110 camera I recently bought has not quite been up to the task like my Nikon L26 was.

Simply on auto setting and held steadily, I shot these with the L26 last year:





With the Canon S110 and shot the same way (Auto) and through the same Leupold 40x scope, I get these results:





Seems there's a general decrease in sharpness and increase in cloudiness, both in the scope and the rest of the image with the Canon. I can't look up the details on shots through the Nikon for a bit, however the Canon was set with f/4, 1/40 sec. exposure and ISO-160 with the auto setting. The lense looks clean, or at least nothing jumps out at me visually.

Any tips or suggestions on improving the photo quality here? Thanks in advance.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
it looks like you are just holding the camera behind the scope?? is so, buy a Deben camera mount on ebay for less than $50. it attaches point-and-shoot cameras( pretty much all of them) directly to the scope with the camera lens almost touching the scope lens. using one of them, you don't even look through the scope. line the crosshairs( as seen on the full field LCD camera screen) up on the target and pull the trigger. almost like remote control shooting, as you can take a picture immediately after the shot.the Deben has a swing away feature that allows you to move the camera to the side if you need to without taking the whole thing off the scope.

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Originally posted by Ray Alaska:
One thing for certain: by looking at the last photo I can clearly tell that you haven't zoomed the lens on the circles as much as done on the first photo.