Rifle Scopes Using camera zoom to increase scope magnification

[RTV]

The Samsung Galaxy S20s have some VERY cool camera features including a 10x optical zoom with up to 100x digital zoom...

Which got me wondering how it would work out with one of the through the scope camera mounts If you mounted up your phone to say an ATACR 1-8x put it on 8x and then tried to "add" magnification using the phone. obviously the digital zoom would get unusable really quick but could you use the 10x optical zoom to add some extra magnification essentially turning the 8x top end into 18x?


I dont know very much about optical engineering (next to nothing) so if this is a dummy question please be nice haha.

 

[LawnMM]

The more lenses you introduce the more issues that come up.

You're seriously going to try and use your phone to let you magnify a target enough to shoot at it?

You also run into problems where the lenses and the images aren't collimated and I believe that produces a sort of parallax error.

So no, not going to work or be worth your trouble. Buy a 3-18x scope, problem solved.

 

[TxWelder35]

I’ve seen a couple guys that film hunts for you YouTube use cameras on the scope. Seems to work well for them. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work

 

[RTV]

You're seriously going to try and use your phone to let you magnify a target enough to shoot at it?

No this is not something I am actively interested in trying... even if it did work I dont really want my thousand dollar phone hanging off my rifle waiting for a branch or something lol

I just like to geek out sometimes and thought it would be cool but do not want to spend the money to test this out knowing that it would probably run into isses... even if I did not know exactly what those would be and thought there would be some more knowledgeable people here who would be interested in kicking this ball around with me =)
Thank you for the reply it was very good at outlining the issues something like that would face.

 

[Sogan]

I’ve seen a couple guys that film hunts for you YouTube use cameras on the scope. Seems to work well for them. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work

Yes and no. They are using something like the side scope mount, which mounts the phone to the side of the scope and allows them to still look through the scope. There is mounts that put the phone right in front of the scope and you look at the phone screen. The latter are way less popular for serious hunters for the reasons already mentioned in the other posts here.