Being Sociable
It's been a long hot Summer, one which recently saw overlapping visits from friends and family. A bit of equipment upgrade, switching to my new Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra has been consuming my birding of late, especially as I have (finally) after years of phonescoping hand-held, switched to using a custom Phoneskope case for my Swarovski ATX. Professional Time to practice with it has been limited, though taking the aforementioned guests out for a spot of Finnish birding allowed for good testing conditions. My initial test was handheld with distant Black-Throated Divers at full 70x zoom on the scope. Despite being a new device and software with all the associated quirks, I was amazed at the level of detail the camera could bring out. Some time later I got to test it with the new adapter on my local Red-Backed Shrike family. Again the level of detail was absolutely superb, and the images required very little editing. The video functions are also excellent. Taking my old friend, Ciar