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Greetings - I have a Sony A600 with the two kit lenses and want to use it for digiscoping with a Razor Vortex HD 20-60-85 spotting scope ( The scope by itself is marvelous! I also bought the camera adapter with it (http://www.vortexoptics.com/product/vortex-razor-hd-spotting-scope-digital-camera-adapter) and tried working with it last weekend taking photos of wolf pups in Yellowstone. It worked OK part of the time...but ended up being pretty frustrating because the camera did not always recognize the attached lens and when it did, the camera lens kept searching for a focus point. It worked some of the time...and then would change modes and search for a focus point. The lenses needed to be zoomed in quite far to avoid the vignetting in the image, so everything was very magnified. I tried the settings on P most of the time and kept raising the ISO so I could use a faster shutter speed; regardless, the photos were not sharp. I ended up moving to Scene mode and going to manual focus and that seemed to work better, but the images were still not well focused. BTW, I was using a good tripod that is capable of holding 20 pounds, so it was pretty steady, and I was using the 2-second delay to avoid camera shake due to my finger on the shutter release. I am wondering if I need a different lens to make this work. Do I need a macro lens? Perhaps, a fixed focal length lens? If I need a different lens to make this work, what suggestions do you have? Is there ia better camera setting to use, I would appreciate hearing about it. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks! Dave