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RE: [OM] Re: OM/T-mount/astro help (duct tape)

Subject: RE: [OM] Re: OM/T-mount/astro help (duct tape)
From: William Clark <wclark@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:00:02 -0500
Use a piggyback adapter, simple and no mess.  here in Canada, Celestron has
one for a bout $30 I think.  I had one, but sold it because I bought a
Losmandy dovetail plate.  Piggybacks are horrible for long lenses (too much
flexure), so I go the Losmandy stuff ($$ though)

-Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Wesson [mailto:roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:42 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OM/T-mount/astro help (duct tape)


T-mount will allow you to use the telescope as a lens, but Acer wants to
attach the camera to the top of the telescope tube, to do wide-field
photography using the telescope only for tracking.

You can buy piggyback brackets, but I don't know how much they cost. 
Brief snippet of information can be found here:
http://www.meade.com/catalog/meade_lx/meade_lx_accessories.html

Roger

> William Clark wrote:
> 
> I have not followed this thread, but why tape?  Just by a T-mount
> adapter that attached from the scope to the T-mount installed on the
> camera.  This is a cheap, safe, and better way to use a scope.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lmwoods@xxxxxxx [mailto:lmwoods@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OM/T-mount/astro help (duct tape)
> 
> The company that makes the "Duck" brand duct tape has a
> white "removeable" version.  The labeling says that it
> will come off if removed within a reasonably short
> period of time (a couple of weeks, as I recall.)  I think
> I saw the stuff in a Target store.
> 
> > ------------------------------
> > From: Acer/Siddiq <waltherppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [OM] OM/T-mount/astro help
> >
> > I cringe at the mere thought of duct taping my beautiful (ahem,
> beater) OM1n to a pristine (NOT mine,
> > borrowed from school) tele...
> >
> > /A/S
> > - --
> > dum spiro, spero
> > http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/siddiq/
> >
> > ------------------------------

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