Monocular "Hall of Fame"

visitors since October 25, 1998
"The monocular shots look crappy but it's understandable. It's amazing that they came out at all..."
            -- Anonymous comment received on July 4, 1998.

May 15, 1999. I received these words of encouragement shortly after putting up some pictures that I took with my digital camera using a monocular as a "super-telephoto" lens. The pictures weren't great, but I didn't think they were all that bad.

Since then I've refined and improved the technique, bought a new digital camera and have borrowed a much better monocular. The pictures are much, much better. This page shows some of my favorite monocular shots, all of which were taken with a Nikon 900 and a Brunton 6x monocular -- the (approximate) equivalent of a 700mm lens on a 35mm camera. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but the quality of the monocular makes a big difference. The Brunton is a well designed 6x32 monocular. I'm not sure how much it cost, but it was certainly a multiple of the Simmons monocular that I used in my original pictures.

Although these pictures were taken with a Nikon 900, you can still read my original essay on how to use a monocular with an Epson PhotoPC 600--not an easy task. It is much easier to use a monocular with the Nikon because its optical zoom enables one to elimiate all vignetting without having to modify the monocular. Just hold it up to the camera lens and shoot. All images below are unmodified -- straight from the camera.

Click to see brunton001.jpg
Apr 26 1999
6:32:43 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/220
Aperture: F6
 Click to see brunton002.jpg
Apr 19 1999
6:42:33 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/99
Aperture: F3.6
 Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton003.jpg
Apr 29 1999
6:35:56 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/180
Aperture: F6
 Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton004.jpg
Apr 29 1999
6:36:24 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: F6
Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton005.jpg
Apr 30 1999
6:35:13 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/331
Aperture: F6
 Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton006.jpg
May 10 1999
6:40:22 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/273
Aperture: F6
 Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton007.jpg
May 15 1999
1:53:35 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/72
Aperture: F3.6
 Click to see ../tawba_subdomain/brunton008.jpg
May 15 1999
1:56:34 PM
Zoom: x13.2 (510mm)
Shutter: 1/62
Aperture: F3.1
Click to see brunton009.jpg
May 11 1999
7:10:54 PM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/168
Aperture: F6
 Click to see brunton010.jpg
May 2 1999
9:16:14 AM
Zoom: x18 (690mm)
Shutter: 1/96
Aperture: F6
    


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