Camera adapter

[ozzmoziz]

i bought a camera adapter for my telescope last year, and its made of aluminum great for the cam and takes great pictures! only one problem the sliders for vertical and horizontal are on plastic supports and the knob is made of plastic as well . so after a year the support broke and now last night the plastic screw for the knob went as well , kind of piss me off was about to take pictures and could not course of that , so all and all the adapter it self is very well built , bad side of it is the support for the sliders and the plastic knobs are made kind of cheap.
heres a picture of what it looks like

[The Mangler]

I can't really picture how that thing works... I assume the camera lens clamps into the big opening and the camera rests on the tray(?). How does it work? Does it take the picture thru the eyepiece?


This is what I have - T-Ring.

You just thread it onto your scope and connect the camera to it the same way you would connect a lens. Basically the telescope becomes the camera lens. Only downside is that you don't have much zoom. Pictures of the moon come out good though.

[ozzmoziz]

its very easy the opening is for the eyepiece and the flat surface you see is where the camera goes, all you have to do is get close to the eyepiece and thats it

[The Mangler]

Ok, I see it now. So who makes it?

[ozzmoziz]

it just says made in taiwan univeral digiscoping adapter, it don t say much, its pretty good accept for the plasic knobs like i said. its all alumnum and i don t have a 35 mm camera so thats why i go this my camera lens as no threads so i can t put nothen on it..

[The Mangler]

Well, sucks that it's broken. From the pics of your's that I've seen, I'd say it did pretty good. Maybe you can fix it. Or if it's cheap enough, just replace it.

For the broken knobs you could always wrap tape around the screw, or run a wing-nut on the end and stake it. Wouldnt look too pretty, but it would work. As far as the other broken parts, replacement might be the only option.

[ozzmoziz]

well for the support for the slider its made of plastic. the guy where i bought it machine shoped a aluminum part for me so i have to go pick it up and for the knub i but a nut works very well , i know it wont break

[dpab]

Celestron makes that one by the looks of it... part #93626.
I go for the T-ring and the adaptor for the Rebelxt I have.