Dave Appleton
Well-known member
I've been digiscoping with a Nikon Coolpix P5000 and a Zeiss slide-on adaptor (not sure precisely what they're called but it looks something like these). This is connected to the camera using a UR-E20 converter ring.
The adaptor simply slides over the eye piece extremely quickly and easily and requires absolutely no fiddling around to secure it, and the set up produces some reasonably good results.
I want to upgrade the camera to something a bit better (which has now become more urgent as I dropped it) but I am struggling to find any better or newer camera that can take the same adaptor set up, or any equivalent that is so simple to use. None of them seem to have the screw thread around the lens that the P5000 has.
Some of the better cameras appear to have a bayonet fitting around the lens instead - but is there anything that will act in place of the UR-E20 to connect the Zeiss slide-on adaptor to any of these cameras?
Would be interested to hear recommendations for suitable cameras and/or adaptors. I also use the camera for macro work, so ideally it should be good for that too!
Thanks!
The adaptor simply slides over the eye piece extremely quickly and easily and requires absolutely no fiddling around to secure it, and the set up produces some reasonably good results.
I want to upgrade the camera to something a bit better (which has now become more urgent as I dropped it) but I am struggling to find any better or newer camera that can take the same adaptor set up, or any equivalent that is so simple to use. None of them seem to have the screw thread around the lens that the P5000 has.
Some of the better cameras appear to have a bayonet fitting around the lens instead - but is there anything that will act in place of the UR-E20 to connect the Zeiss slide-on adaptor to any of these cameras?
Would be interested to hear recommendations for suitable cameras and/or adaptors. I also use the camera for macro work, so ideally it should be good for that too!
Thanks!