paul_j_c2000
Well-known member
Hi i am posting this message hoping that it will help any like
minded people with an interest in digiscoping,i have owned a Nikon
ED82 field scope for a while and i am very pleased with it(i also
have the 30x ep)i liked the idea of digiscoping which i had read
alot about on the net,i found that the shape of the nikon eyepiece
was not really suited to having anything clamped to it and because
of the twist out design of the cover, push on adaptors were not that
good either so i bought the nikon FSA digi camera attachment which
comprises of three parts FSA1 FSA2 and FSA3 and makes a really solid
eyepiece attatchment,the only trouble is nikon only make adapter
rings to suit there camera's. i bought it with the ring for the
cp900/4500 series and borrowed a cp990 from a friend it worked
really well but i didnt really get on very well with the camera, so
i wanted to fit it on my canon a95 . i bought the canon filter
attachment from ebay which has a 52mm thread on the end,being an
engineer i measured the thread on tne nikon adapter and found it had
a 58mm thread,so i found a 52/58 stepup ring and great the whole
setup fits together the FSA3 takes the canon adaptor and stepup ring
lock it onto the camera and just slip onto scope when needed,i have
used the setup to good effect but havent had a nice bright day yet
to try it at its best there is vignetting at the lower zoom settings
but soon goes when zooming in on the camera.knowing the thread size
i am sure their are lots of combinations which could be tryed,hope
this makes sense to someone i will post some pics asap paul
minded people with an interest in digiscoping,i have owned a Nikon
ED82 field scope for a while and i am very pleased with it(i also
have the 30x ep)i liked the idea of digiscoping which i had read
alot about on the net,i found that the shape of the nikon eyepiece
was not really suited to having anything clamped to it and because
of the twist out design of the cover, push on adaptors were not that
good either so i bought the nikon FSA digi camera attachment which
comprises of three parts FSA1 FSA2 and FSA3 and makes a really solid
eyepiece attatchment,the only trouble is nikon only make adapter
rings to suit there camera's. i bought it with the ring for the
cp900/4500 series and borrowed a cp990 from a friend it worked
really well but i didnt really get on very well with the camera, so
i wanted to fit it on my canon a95 . i bought the canon filter
attachment from ebay which has a 52mm thread on the end,being an
engineer i measured the thread on tne nikon adapter and found it had
a 58mm thread,so i found a 52/58 stepup ring and great the whole
setup fits together the FSA3 takes the canon adaptor and stepup ring
lock it onto the camera and just slip onto scope when needed,i have
used the setup to good effect but havent had a nice bright day yet
to try it at its best there is vignetting at the lower zoom settings
but soon goes when zooming in on the camera.knowing the thread size
i am sure their are lots of combinations which could be tryed,hope
this makes sense to someone i will post some pics asap paul
