Capture Stills and Video from Spotting Scopes with iPhone Adapter
Here’s a simple but cleverly-designed product that lets you easily record photos and videos from your range and hunting sessions. The new MeoPix iScoping Adapter will connect an Apple iPhone to your spotting scope (or even some binoculars). Anything you can see through the scope can now be captured by an iPhone. Record your shot locations on a distant target. Or record images of mirage you see through the scope for later analysis. Hunters can capture images of distant prey, and record successful shots.
Adapter Works with Many Brands of Optics
The MeoPix bracket is a universal-type device that was developed to allow the iPhone 4 or 4s models to interface with ANY binocular or spotting scope eyepiece. When fitted to a long-range optic, the MeoPix transforms a smart phone into a handy, long-range photo and movie capturing tool. The Apple-approved MeoPix iScoping adapter attaches securely to the iPhone. Meopta claims the MeoPix bracket ensures precise alignment and excellent image quality.
How good are the images and video taken with an iPhone in the MeoPix adapter? According to Meopta USA GM Reinhard Seipp, “When paired with our premium spotting scopes and binoculars, the MeoPix adapter provides extraordinary close-up photos and movies with clarity and resolution that rival traditional photography.” Seipp even thinks his MeoPix adapter will render traditional camera-based Digiscoping “obsolete”, for those who prefer the convenience of the iPhone and its ability to organize and upload images from the field.
The MeoPix iScoping adapter will be formally introduced in January, at the 2012 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. For more information, visit MeoptaSportsOptics.com, or call Meopta USA at (800) 828-8928.
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Funny story; I had just got my new Brunton spotting scope and on a whim took it on the porch to look at the moon and was shocked to see how much detail you can make out with only 60x magnification. I tried to take a photo by holding my iphone over the lens but only got some lame, half occluded pictures.
This product, while hockey is a cool idea.
I wonder if the video function would pic up bullet trace?
Would this be legal in Palma?
Yes, this is a cool product & just one more example of how human creativity fills all sorts of niches you never imagined were there. The occlusion was probably from mis-alignment of the iPhone’s lens to the eyepiece of the spotting scope, it’s got to be centered up to work properly. I’ve used a conventional DSLR for borescope shots but it’s tricky; maybe this adapter will work for that too?
I suspect the video function will render bullet trace just fine but will have to wait until next season to put my theory to a real-world test. Of course I’ll also need to acquire one of these adapters….
As for being legal in Palma; to what purpose? Taking pictures while shooting? Why add yet another distraction? On the other hand, using the iPhone to enlarge & present a spotting scope image might make wind-reading a little more practical.
I’d like somebody to author an iPhone app that will enable two iPhone users to use FaceTime with one iPhone in the pits, watching a target for impacts, with the other on the line spotting the shots as they come in!!
Company says these are in production, ought to be available sometime late February – early March. Designed to be compatible with their line of spotting scopes, other applications (bore scope?) may require DIY adapter. Price? Estimated around $60.