Is using a DSLR camera with lens just like using binoculars?
May 6, 2010 by
Filed under Camera Binoculars
I use binoculars all the time – birdwatching, wildlife watching, and stargazing. I know how to adjust focus and all that. Is DSLR the same thing? I’ve never tried using one before.
a dSLR (with a zoom lens) is more like a monocular but with a wider view. Don’t know how to explain it but since the barrel of the lens is usually much thicker, you don’t have that tunnel vision common with binoculars.
Look through your binoculars with one eye, it’s like that, but the quality and view through them is much better.
If you really want to check out a dSLR with zoom lens (non zoom lenses don’t react like binoculars) go to your local camera store and ask to look through some cameras and lenses!
Well, a camera takes pictures.
Let me add that the optical requirements for a camera are more stringent than for binoculars. That’s because the image formed is larger than the pupil of your eye and there is zero tolerance for motion blur, which would ruin the photographic image. This results in camera lenses being much more expensive than the equivalent magnification in a binocular lens.
One other difference is that the camera will have auto-focus, although you can turn it off if you like. Most of the time, you will need a tripod in order to reduce the effects of camera movement.
similar… only you’re using one eye, and the camera is much heavier.