how to take longer range pics?

so i have some great bucks spotted but they usually are at least 200 yrds away and when i take pics they look like little dots! i've tried taking pics through my spotting scope but it just flashes the lens and doesn't turn out. do you need a special video camera to down load it on here? mines is not digital so i'm not sure if it will work????? any input would be greatly appriciated, i'm just trying to get some great bucks for you all to look at.
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AGCHAWK
Hey Killer, why don't ya just let me know where those bucks are located. I'll head out there and take the pics for ya....I PROMISE I won't tell anyone where they're at....LOL

Wish I could help ya man. I'm about the worse photog this site has seen.
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Snake River Marksman
Taking pictures through a spotting scope is tough. It generally works best if your view finder is through the lens. Using the LCD will work but again, it takes some practice. The best thing is a tripod mounted camera with a bunch of zoom. If you could get your video put on CD, that effectively digitizes it and then you could capture stills and then upload to the web. I don't know if this site supports mpegs or not. Did any of that make any sense?
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killerbee
AGC- i'll tell you where they are at, i gotta do some serious map studying to get the BLM behind them figured out. it's pretty tricky there are a lot of checker boarded public/ private land where they are at.

Snake river--that makes alittle sence until you got to the mpegs part of it :dumb i need to put my still camera on a tripod also so maybe i can line them up better, but it seems like i thought they would be lined up then the flash would highlight the scope and would just take a pic of the blurry scope?? again :dumb but i will keep trying-- thank for the info!
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I have had some luck using my point and shoot digital through a spooting scope , but its hit and miss.

with out scope .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/rgkempton/Wildlife/withoutscope.jpg" alt="" />

with , snowing like crazy so it not very sharp.

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with out .

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with.

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with

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Snake River Marksman
Killerbee,
Mpegs are digital movies. Jpegs are a form of digital stills. There are other formats for both digital movies and stills, but those are the two most common forms.
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