My wife came to me the other day with an interesting challenge. “Honey, I cannot see far enough to identify the sea birds!”.
All images in the this article are available full resolution at: https://allangraves.myportfolio.com/bird-scoping. I encourage you to look at the larger versions for comparisons.
For the record, my wife is using a 30x Superzoom, the Panasonic Lumix FZ80 camera. For $279, it’s a fantastic value — allowing you to take reasonable pictures of birds (or your neighbors) from down the street. At 18MP, with a tiny sensor, it won’t get you many career keepers though. (Although, you can frame almost anything under a mile away as the entire image, so you do get a lot of detail — but the sensor shows its weakness.)