Why not make your own adapter?????????? (1 Viewer)

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The tab wasn't working well, took too much time to adjust, even after I had it dialed in pretty close. so, back to the drawing board...

Or, more correctly, back to JohnJos' design. To save the expense and time (I'm in the instant-gratification generation) of ordering the Hong Kong adapter, I went and got two L-brackets (for building corners), drilled out 5/16th holes to fit my 1/4" bolts and knob (OSH hardware department). The oversized holes give me enough room to center the camera lens perfectly. I'm sure you could use a dremel tool to cut slots into the L-brackets if needed to adjust to a camera with greater offset between the lens and the tripod mount.

I've found that the best way to get the distance between camera and eyepiece lens is to use a combination of three things: my screw eyecup, the zoom on the camera, and the zoom on the scope's eyepiece. Between the three, I can minimize vingetting.

Folks,
As an update to my adapter design presented earlier in this thread, I found that the PVC reducer I used to connect my scope's eyepiece to my camera adapter also fits nicely on the eyecup of my Zeiss FL 8x42 bins. I need to extent the eyecup fully to get proper focus, but that where I use them anyway.

Unfortunately the nylon screws I use to tighten the adapter to my scope eyepiece do not tighten it onto the bin's eyecup. But I could use long screws for that purpose. I have them, I just haven't tested them out yet.

Here's a couple of quick pics I took that way last weekend using this setup.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=102298

I had my scope with me in my backpack but I didn't think the hawk would hang around long enough for me to set up. So I took these two shots real quick through my bins on a long shot it would work. Then I started setting up my scope and the hawk flew away as soon as I looked down to start unpacking. Luckily I had the two bin photos to help ID the hawk (with the help of BF experts).