Celestron 93626 Universal Digital Camera Adapter

This camera adapter is a great piece of equipment. It's a little on the bulky side, and I think
the price is a little high, but you won't find it at a better price any where ells. It's pretty
adjustable, even my video camera fits on the platform. Works well with my Cannon A590.

My main reason for purchasing this device was to be able to do a variety of eyepiece astrophotography. I attempted to hook up one of my 2" eye pieces and a Sony Cyber Camera to this adapter and it won't work. The camera platform is too short in all vertical adjustments to bring the camera's lens dead center into the 2" eyepiece. Also I attempted to hook up my Sony camcorder and one of my 1-1/4" eye pieces and again - the platform was not deep enough on the horizontal plane to enable the camcorder's lens to see through the 1-1/4" eyepiece. The only way I can use this adapter with my digital Cyber Camera is to hook it up to a 1-1/4" eyepiece. This seems to work, but I did not buy the device to be used in only one configuration. I bought it in order to use it with various sizes of eyepieces and various types of video and camera equipment. Because of the limited use I give it three stars. Hopefully I will be able to machine some components that will enable me to use 2" eye pieces as well as my HD camcorder.

What a nice item. It would work with almost any camera or digital camera. We used Sony DSP200. My 8 years old son used it to take lunar eclipse and won his elementary school competition. We also used it to view the eclipse by camera's LCD. When family wants to look at object via telescope, we do not have to take a turns any more. We just attach this adapter and digital camera.

I read that this gadget was heavy, but I didn't believe it. It's made of plastic and aluminum, how heavy can it be? Well it weighs in at almost 15 ounces! At 8" long and 4-1/2" wide, it's built like a battleship.

Try and use this on a smaller telescope and you'll have quite a balancing chore to perform. It appears to be sized for an older generation of much larger cameras.

One good thing, the little L-shaped foot at the bottom is threaded like a camera, so if your camera and scope are light enough, just clamp them both to this behemoth and screw the adapter itself to the tripod.

If this were half the size and half the weight, it would be a winner. As it is, I can't imagine how I'll use it.

This piece makes a breeze to take pictures on the microscope with common small digital cameras. Centering of the light is easy. Filling the field of the camera with the image is crucial but readily achieved. Stability of the system is great. I additionally recommend doing white background adjustment in manual mode, self-timer of 2 seconds and suppressed flash. Pictures are nearly as good as with dedicated microscope cameras worth thousands of dollars.