You know a telescope? but this is a tinyscope, specially for far objects and sometimes can be used for night sky.
Tinyscope is from a Kickstarter, they raised over $150,000 from 1200+ backers. https://kickstarter.com/projects/tinyscope/dwarf-telescopea-portable-digital-telescope
Specs:
4K Resolution
24mm aperture
10mm focal length
8MP Sensor
Type-C Port
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We get a WiFi Box & Tripod in Box with the Telescope, it acts as a data transmitter along with supplying power. They also ship a version with Pan Tilt which allow for far better precise movements than adjusting the tripod stand manually. It also has an inbuilt battery.
You can also connect Dwarf directly via OTG to Android, also with PCs if you are 5m away from your PC and need a webcam. Seriously it supports it.
I was able to do 4K low FPS video and 720p High FPS Video, I still don’t know what was the bottleneck, transmission or artificial capping? Although let’s focus on images. They turn out to be quite better than expected. Got natural colours and did zoom very well!
Timelapse
The Android app we tried is quite featured
- Time Lapse
- Remote Control for Pan Tilt
- Resolution changing
- Focus Changing
- General Camera Options
- Changing WiFi Properties (Channel, Password)
- Firmware Upgrade
- Community for sharing results.
Conclusion is, it does the core job excellent. But there is room for more polishing. It’s a must buy for inspiration from space. It sparks the curiosity about what’s out there, it will be diminishing in the coming years due to excess of information. There are indirect benefits for buying this, visible in long term, unless you want to spy on other’s balconies (which it does pretty well)
They also have a digital microscope, which is also nice.
On a spectrum it’s more like a project, as it need more polishing which we can expect from upcoming versions. Due to the nature, support still remains a question.
I’ll add something which is not relevant to the product review, the importance of night skies. How it made our ancestors wonder, and why it will be rare in upcoming generations (evxen now!) due to air and light pollution. I recommend you watch this video or click the image below.
https://iframe.mediadelivery.net/play/221992/52b4b7e7-f977-4cb5-a3a2-3a2ffb8cb006h
