Iphone 6 scope cam feedback ?

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How-to for dealing w/ the iPhone's AF:
  1. Launch the Camera app like you normally would to take a photo. 
  2. Press and hold on your focal point until you see an AE/AF Lock banner appear at the top of the screen.
  3. Remove your finger from the screen and tap the shutter button when you're ready to take your photo. 
  4. Unlock the focus and exposure again at any time by tapping anywhere on the screen.
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Yesterday I tried my new iphone 6 mounted on a Seben DKA2 mount and the result was so-so. I'm probably messing something up but the mount with the iphone shakes too much making impossible to see the pellet flight or impact. The quality isn't that good too, the resolution goes way down at 240fps. I don't think recording at 120fps would do any better. The scope is a Nikko Mountmaster 4x32 AO, cheap scope but at least the glass is somewhat clear.

As for the focus, as Chip said, touch and hold until the focus and exposure locks.

Here's the video. 
http://youtu.be/ZexwISxlD6s

BTW, all shots hit the cans, except for the last one... but the dust rising was cool!


Today i removed one of the "arms" of the Seben mount, making the whole setup shorter and a lot more stable, but I couldn't test it yet. Probably I'll end trying something not as fancy as the Seben mount, like a iphone cover and a piece of tube glued on it that fits around my scope.

 
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Sorvette: What rifle is that scope attached to? The vibration is unbelievable. I see where you mentioned shortening the arm. Hopefully that will help tremendously. 

I use an app called Pro Cam that allows me to shoot in 4k (30% upscale) and I am thinking that between that and shooting at 120 frames I can slow the video down with post editing and maintain quality on upload. I haven't tried it yet, but my Krosa will be here shortly, so I will try it then and update my results. 

I purchased an iPhone 6 and a 6+ a few months later, so now I use my iPhone 6 as a dash cam and it does well with the vibrations by using a small sturdy mount, so I am hoping the same will hold true with the 6 in using it as a scope cam as mentioned
 
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It's Hatsan BT65, .22, without any regulator. That was my first time using the Seben mount so I guess there is room for improvement. I noticed a clearance between the seben mount arm and the top part of the rifle butt stock of about 1 inch. Maybe I can squeeze a piece of rubber or something to work as a damper. Also the rubbery part that makes contact with the scope eye piece seems too hard to absorb any vibration. Maybe something softer will help in keeping the vibration under control.

I'll definitly try that app you mentioned. The video quality at 240fps, stock camera app, is horrible. Even with good lighting (sun behind me) the quality was... depressing! Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Maybe I'm just expecting too much from the iPhone camera. Guess I'll wait till Ted show us what he can do with it.
 
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Make sure the iphone isn't too close or too far from the ocular lens. Put the iphone camera lens at the same distance your eye would be as if you were shooting normally. When everything is installed correctly, point your gun at some even color object, like a white wall, at close distance. Only then tap and hold on your iphone screen right on the scope reticle. The iphone camera will try to focus on any object, in this case the reticle. If you point your gun at some far, high contrast object, chances are the camera will focus on that object rather than the reticle. As soon as the iphone focus and locks on the reticle, you can then move your rifle and point wherever you want. The focus should stay on the scope reticle. If the target picture is out of focus, even if the reticle seems perfectly focused, use the AO on your scope to bring the target into focus. Tip: while the focus is locked, you can swipe up or down to adjust the image brightness to have a better picture.
 
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