There’s a wealth of telescopes for attaching to your smartphone available on Amazon, but the marketing for the StarScope Monocular would have you believe that their designers have broken the laws of physics.
Krazy Ken of Computer Clan stumbled upon the advertising for the StarScope Monocular and was somewhat surprised by the bold claims that the manufacturers were making. This lens promises to match the performance of a DSLR equipped with a lens that costs thousands of dollars, showing you examples of its ability to zoom impressive distances using footage that, as it turns out, might not be genuine.
As Ken points out, the indications that the lens is not all that it’s described to be are plentiful, and you’d have to hope that most people stumbling upon these adverts would spot at least one and realize that everything isn’t quite as it seems. Confusingly, the product doesn’t seem to be all that bad for the price, but the advertising is somewhat misleading, to say the least.
One thing to correct Ken on: it is possible to pick out the rings of Saturn with a cheap telescope.
Would you spend 50 bucks on a smartphone telephoto zoom? Let us know in the comments below.
This video is preposterous! I graduated from Joe Hopkin's University with Berchelors in DLSR Studies!
This sounds like something I should put up against the horrible P1000 🙃
If you hit the Amazon link you see about forty different types and brands of this. They all look about the same; I suspect there is a factory outside of Shanghai that turns these out with very modestly different cases, and that the innards are all the same.
Yep. Bought mine for $12 delivered. Works just fine at that price.