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Convenient accessory clamps onto the eypiece of most spotting scopes, to attach a compact digital camera for "Digiscope" nature photography and scouting. The camera arm easily swivels aside to allow direct viewing.
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- Bracket to attach a compact digital camera to a spotting scope- Clamps to eyepiece of most spotting scopes
- Camera arm swivels to allow direct viewing
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By David L. Sharpness
I use the bracket with a Minolta mini spotting scope, and a Nikon spotting scope, and the camera I use is a Canon D10 Waterproof point and shoot....the D10 has a unique feature for digiscoping...the lens is behind a dime-size pane of glass, and does all it's moving back and forth behind the glass...so one can nestle the camera with the bracket right up against the eyepiece....I was getting along fine with the bracket until I broke off the little upright arm at its base...there's really not much metal there for strength. There are some holes in one of the spokes, and I've been able to jury rig and use rubberbands and get along okay, but tonight I just ordered up a new one. It's a fine little bracket, and for the price a real find, just be careful with the arm!
By John Kliem (NZ)
I bought this adapter after recently acquiring a spotting scope for birding. While researching the scope I came across digiscoping and thought to give it a try. This adapter seemed to have two critical advantages - its light weight and the fact that it allows the camera to be swung away from the scope. This latter characteristic means that it is quick and simple to revert to viewing, and to reposition and refocus the scope. Focussing the scope through the camera's LCD monitor in bright light is near impossible.
I use this adapter with a Celestron F-ED scope and a Pentax W20 camera. I bought the camera a few years ago for its waterproofness (I take a lot of duckings while flyfishing), and as its zoom does not protrude, it is perfect for digiscoping; the camera body can be positioned right up to the scope's ocular, eliminating vignetting.
Early days yet, but this adapter seems pretty good. As described in my scope review, in its first outing, in difficult conditions - poor light, flimsy tripod, shaky hide, small active distant targets, inexperienced operator - this adapter allowed me to take a few photographs that are accepted as evidence of the first confirmed sighting of the extremely rare Shore Plover in this area. For we birders, it doesn't get much more exciting than this!
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