How to Digiscope with an iPhone?

So, you’ve just bought your new Mountain Mag Digiscope and you want to see what it is capable of. You rotate the Mountain Mag Digiscope to align with your phone’s zoom lens, attach it to the Mountain Mag piece on your optic, and open the camera app. But wait—your screen is black and out of focus!

Unfortunately, the default iPhone camera app tries to “intelligently” switch between camera lenses, making digiscoping a bit tricky. Here are two solutions to resolve this issue and get your digiscoping setup working smoothly:

1. Lock the focus on the Default Camera App
   Make the adapter is not on your phone. Open your default camera app and switch to use the lens you would like to digiscope with. Then long press in the center of your screen until you see AE/AF LOCK. You can now put the adapter on your phone, target the correct lens, and start digiscoping.
2. Download our Mountain Mag Camera App
   
   We built a camera app from the ground up for digiscoping. It has lens locking ability so you can select the lens that you want to use, zoom all the way in and all the way out, and it will not try to switch lenses on you. It also has some other very cool features in it.

   • It can remember your video settings across sessions.
   • You can take videos and photos, and they save to your regular Apple photo gallery.
   • There are also some playback tools like frame-by-frame analysis and stabilization that can revolutionize how you digiscope.

That’s all it takes! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at support@epochoutdoors.com.

For a visual tutorial of how to use the default camera app on your iPhone, watch this video: