Hi,
Just to let you know that a German astro product manufacturer Baader Planetarium has a new bracket-type digiscoping adapter, which fits to almost any scope/eyepiece-camera combinations (http://www.baader-planetarium.de/zubehoer/mechadap/digi-t2.htm). It seems to be designed mainly for astrophotography, but I have used it successfully with my Swaro AT80HD (+zoom, 77x and 20xSW eyepieces) and the CP4500. The bracket is easily attached to the eyepiece with a large screw-on-clamp. The camera is then mounted on a support platform, which can be fine-adjusted in x, y and z dimentions. The price of the product is 78e - and they were selling it at an introductory price of 68e. I would almost call it a poor-man's Swaro DCB, which should work especially well with cameras with adjustable display (eg. Canon A80/95).
This adapter is not very rapid to put on/take off, and it does not (usually) permit the use of the eyepiece zoom, but once it is in place it works IMO very well with minimum vignetting and you don't need to remove the rubbery eyecups from the eyepieces. Good for those (like myself) who mainly use the scope for other-than-digiscoping purposes.
Happy digiscoping, :t:
Ilkka
Just to let you know that a German astro product manufacturer Baader Planetarium has a new bracket-type digiscoping adapter, which fits to almost any scope/eyepiece-camera combinations (http://www.baader-planetarium.de/zubehoer/mechadap/digi-t2.htm). It seems to be designed mainly for astrophotography, but I have used it successfully with my Swaro AT80HD (+zoom, 77x and 20xSW eyepieces) and the CP4500. The bracket is easily attached to the eyepiece with a large screw-on-clamp. The camera is then mounted on a support platform, which can be fine-adjusted in x, y and z dimentions. The price of the product is 78e - and they were selling it at an introductory price of 68e. I would almost call it a poor-man's Swaro DCB, which should work especially well with cameras with adjustable display (eg. Canon A80/95).
This adapter is not very rapid to put on/take off, and it does not (usually) permit the use of the eyepiece zoom, but once it is in place it works IMO very well with minimum vignetting and you don't need to remove the rubbery eyecups from the eyepieces. Good for those (like myself) who mainly use the scope for other-than-digiscoping purposes.
Happy digiscoping, :t:
Ilkka