Make your own telephoto
If you have a pair of binoculars or a monocular you will have a better telephoto lense than using your 4x setting ,with a digital camera.
Standard Photo.
Next is taken with the same camera only on the 4x telephoto setting.

4x setting
I was using a 5Mp camera and noticed that when I took pictures with a 4x setting they came out very fuzzy when enlarged.This was the reason to try the method I used many years ago with a fixed lense 35 mm camera. Having a monocular and an LCD display on the camera helped quite a lot.



Hold the rubber eyepiece of the monocular against the camera lense housing, after first focusing it on the subject. Then set the camera to infinity or sienic veiw, and press the shutter. There are some examples below.

This was cropped from the original taken through monocular.
As can be seen, the majority of the frame is black with a round picture in the middle. The resulting picture is more like 20x the original and still has plenty of definition. Iam busy making a plug on extension for my camera as it has been very good for Whale watching.

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