The 6x21 monocular has a special clamp and ocular rubber to fit on a smartphone. Very well made but it doesnt work on my Samsung. As a monocular its spectacular. As you might have guessed I have the 6x21. The microscope closeup lens is also great.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 18:31 Eric Weir, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 17, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Switch to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. It will provide excellent 11 megapixel > photos with wide, normal and short tele lenses. Lots of nice features like > portrait and panorama modes. Excellent video too. Good in camera editing as > well. Oh, and it has phone and web browser functions, When you need big > glass or higher res use your Pentax, > > Experience with the amazing—to me, of course—Fuji XQ1 compact, which I > purchased to keep my kit light for a 2015 bike tour in Italy, caused me to > start graduating away from Pentax. I kept the XQ1, purchased a Fuji XM1 and > a Fuji XF 27/2.8 lens, and gradually sold off my Pentax bodies and lenses. > > Subsequently, when on a month spent on the Blue ridge Parkway I found > myself without batteries for the Fuji equipment when both of the battery > chargers purchased for the trip failed to work, I resorted to my iPhone 6s > as my backup camera and was stunned at the quality of the images I got. > > On three trips to the Big Bend area since then the iPhone has been my only > camera. I have one photo from those trips enlarged and framed on my wall > now. There could be more. The only thing I longed for with the 6s was a > telephoto lens to bring some of the distant landscape scenes of Big Bend up > closer. > > Recently I upgraded the 6s to an iPhone 12 Pro, mainly for the telephoto > lens it provides. I find it helpful in other settings but it won’t meet the > need I feel in Big Bend landscapes. Should I get the opportunity to return > to Big Bend I will consider going back to Pentax for this: > https://us.ricoh-imaging.com/product/vm-6x21-wp-monocular/ > > It’ll perhaps be admitting my lack of technical sophistication, but I find > the editing capabilities of iPhone cameras and Apple’s Photos app fully > adequate to my needs. I will hang onto LightRoom as a way of preserving the > editing I did with my Pentax and Fuji photos but rely on Photos from here > on out as my primary photo editing and organizing software. > > What were you referring to, Paul, when you mentioned the 13 Pro Max’s > “phone and web browser functions”? > > ---------------------------------------- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "It has all been combustion.” > > - W.G. Sebald > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
