Ted, will you share some detail on your camera to scope mount?

Hi Ted,

Would you mind sharing some detail on your scope cam mount?

I have one of the generic mounts similar to what you used in your earlier videos, but its a pain to set up and keep in position. 

I have a point and shoot camera Im willing to sacrifice to be used as a scope cam and Im trying to figure out the best way to secure the tube to the camera body.

How is the tube mounted to your point and shoot camera?

Thanks!

Brian
 
Hey Brian, I don't profess to be the expert that Ted is but when I get a new toy, I spend a poop load of time testing, tweeking, comparing and ultimately squeezing the max potential out of it. This applied to my Seben, Orion, Eagle Vision and custom built scope cam mounts. The "swing arm" styles were adequate but lacking mainly in stability, as you have found out. My custom mount works great but is proprietary to my Marauder synthetic. The Eagle Vision is fantastic if you want to spend the bucks and store all the excess components, to possibly use down the road. This, IMHO, is the way to go for any Hawke Sidewinder. Two things to note, as the "screw into eyepiece" feature is stellar, it does require messing around with positioning of the scope eyepiece to achieve center of the aperture and reticle position. The component to the camera is also somewhat proprietary to the Casio line of cameras, when gluing to the camera lense projection. Tanuki's link should clarify and answer most of your queries...have fun with it, as the scope cam adds a whole new aspect to airgunnig, along with being a useful tool for analyzing shots for accuracy improvement. 
 
 Just some food for thought here. I am into astronomy, and it is not uncommon in astronomy to have a camera and a visual eyepiece on the same scope. There are fairly common prism splitters that place the camera on the top of the eyepiece while you look straight through. 

For those of you that are truly into videotaping your shooting exploits, you might look into a prism that allows you to optically look through the sight while the camera is rolling.

For the life of me I cannot understand how in the world Ted can make 100 yard shots looking through a LCD on the back of the camera. He is more of a shot than I will ever be. 
 
jpbrewer Just some food for thought here. I am into astronomy, and it is not uncommon in astronomy to have a camera and a visual eyepiece on the same scope. There are fairly common prism splitters that place the camera on the top of the eyepiece while you look straight through. 

For those of you that are truly into videotaping your shooting exploits, you might look into a prism that allows you to optically look through the sight while the camera is rolling.

For the life of me I cannot understand how in the world Ted can make 100 yard shots looking through a LCD on the back of the camera. He is more of a shot than I will ever be.


same here. Link to the prism system please?