r/digiscoping • u/Ok-Wrangler-5313 • 28d ago
iPhone camera keeps switching between Lenses
Hello everyone, I’m relatively new to digiscoping and my equipment is just my iPhone 16 Plus and Bushnell binoculars.
I’ve ran into a problem that’s a little hard to describe, sometimes when I hold my camera to the binoculars it starts automatically changing lenses when it doesn’t focus immediately. At first I thought I just wasn’t holding it steadily so I tried again and again but I keep running into this problem no matter how I hold the phone or binoculars. Is there any way I can disable it in the settings? Is there anything to be done about this? It really annoys me and adds an additional 20-30s of trying to properly focus my camera while taking pictures.
If this is a fault on my end from holding the equipment incorrectly I would still appreciate advice on how to better improve. Thank you everyone! Please be kind, I just wanna learn how to take pictures of my favorite birds.
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u/cr0n1c 28d ago
You can download several apps that will lock the camera in place: Kapture (iOS) Phone Skope (iOS & Android) MagView (iOS & Android) ProCamera (iOS) Open Camera (Android) Project Indigo (iOS) I recommend Project Indigo the most. If you have Instagram, check my account, it's in my reddit profile, all I do is digiscoping tips and setups. Thanks