scodgerott
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Hi Lyman, A red dot sight is an LED powered device that fits into the hot shoe of a camera, or gun. A small bright red dot is projected onto a small screen on the top of the sight. Every time you fit the sight to the camera you need to line it up with the focus square on the camera. Once that's done you can quickly track fast flying birds, without trying to find them in the viewfinder. Its particularly useful when using long zooms, as your field of view is very small. Its main disadvantage is that as you aren't using the viewfinder, you don't really know what you have shot until you do a playback of what you've taken. Its very good for birds in flight, or any fast action. It also reguires a 2032 battery. Here's a link to a sight that sells one similar to the one I have. Note that it has 7 brightness settings, that's important, as I had an earlier one that only had 3 brightness settings and you couldn't see the dot in sunlight. Basically it was useless in bright conditions.
http://sacheto.com/2119301/?utm_source=froogle_au&utm_medium=free&utm_campaign=product&lang=au
I forgot to mention, you will also need a "hot shoe sliding plate" for it to fit on to the camera. Its not included in this site, but some red dot sights do include that fitting.
http://sacheto.com/2119301/?utm_source=froogle_au&utm_medium=free&utm_campaign=product&lang=au
I forgot to mention, you will also need a "hot shoe sliding plate" for it to fit on to the camera. Its not included in this site, but some red dot sights do include that fitting.
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