Nikon Binocular Window Mount
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Manufacturer: NikonModel: 7070
Product features:
- For use with all spotting scopes, cameras, and other tripod adaptable accessories
- Pivoting head allows full range of motion
- Padded clamp firmly attaches to any car or truck window
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Nikon Binocular Window Mount
Customer Review: worthless for zoom lenses or spotting scopes
Summary: 1 Stars
This Nikon car window mount is worthless for panning either a spotting scope or a super zoom lens camera.
I agree with another reviewer here who thinks the name "Nikon' and a hefty price ($35) should get you a device that works well.
Ten or more years ago Bushnell had a well-designed and built unit that looked and worked like this but it is no longer made. "Nikon"
appears to have bought or taken that design and redone some of it and then cut the most important corners in building it. As a result,
you might think this unit should work (the name "Nikon" and the proven design, right?). Wrong. This is a worthless ripoff.
This unit has both vertical and horizontal axis rotations and screw-detentes. Once the unit is mounted to the window, you should be able to
fix either H/V axis and slew the mounted scope/camera through the other axis independently, accurately and smoothly.
In this Nikon unit, however, the vertical axis has a built-in, permanent slop of several degrees so that a 15+ power scope sags
more than a full field of view before the barrel can be stopped and will rotate horizontally on a fixed elevation. Thus, you cannot aim
high powered optics at the horizon and scan it, reliably. Further, the tightening screw cannot be tightened enough to really
stop the sag completely, so there is no way to outwit the poor performance.
The window mounting clamp is also shaky because its clamps apply their force at single point so the clamps will easily rotate on the glass.
The window clamps also do not compensate for the now universal inward and upward slant of all front windows in passenger cars --
so there is a permanent upward tilt (arc) to horizontal panning.
There is no mechanism to balance a spotting scope or long lens/camera combo -- it always "leans" out, tending to produce a permanent downward sag.
Most of these problems could be overcome by jury rigs if only the joints could be tightened to hold the optics securely. But "Nikon" built
this thing so poorly it is hopeless. Don't waste your money unless you will use this only for a airy-light wide angle movie or
video camera and you aren't very particular.
Description of Nikon Binocular Window Mount
Attaches to any automobile side window.Binoculars
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