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Nikon Binocular Window Mount |  | Brand: Nikon
Category: Photography
List Price: $88.68
Buy New: $29.95
as of 9/3/2010 09:31 CDT details
You Save: $58.73 (66%)
New (27) from $29.95
Seller: Adorama Camera
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 21307
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 3.4 x 3.1
MPN: 7070
Model: 7070
UPC: 018208070701
EAN: 0182080707014
ASIN: B00006LRWI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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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Product Description
BINOCULAR, WINDOW MOUNT, BLACK
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cool way to mount your camera to youre car window. January 16, 2007
B. Webber (Santa Barbara, CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This thing is useful if you want to take pictures of things out of your car window but arent very good at handholding a camera. Or its useful if you need to take pictures on the go without having time to set up a big tripod. It is almost like mounting your tripod head to your car window. It is very safe and sturdy on the window and will not scratch it. It has rubberized grips where is holds onto the window and also a quick release same as most tripods have. It dosent have all the mosements a tripod can do, but does its job well. The only complaint I have about this product is that if your car was on uneven ground there is no control to correct the horizontal axis on the camera. All you can do in this case is to put the window mount on the window crooked to compensate, but you can only go so far doing that before you run out of room and it becomes unstable. I bought 2 of these products and they are both working well. Out of all similar window mounts I was looking at this one works the best.
Excellent product August 29, 2008
Sparse Grey Hackle (Boulder, Utah)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
We tried several other window mounts and were not pleased with the way they worked.
Many applied too much pressure to one small point on the window and to get them solid enough to pan and shoot you almost were cracking the glass.
They loosened up too fast and did not articulate well at all.
this Nikon window mount was more expensive and we hoped the old adage "you get what oyu pay for" would hold true and it did.
This is well worth buyinng if you shoot telephoto from your vehicle such as in National Parks, or like to shoot video of scenery while driving back roads or in scenic areas.
We live in southern Utah, called Canyon Country or Color Country by the tourism boards, this is true and in this beautiful place we take photos and film alot, this mount also has come in very handy while on vacations to nearby attractions.
Another n ice feature is it easily mounts to a spotting scope for hunting season, saving setting up a bi pod to glass goats and elk. I am considering getting a second one so I can mount one on the drivers side as well as the passengers side, then we can both shoot those long telephotos without shake or shimmy.
 Great, and reasonable price, way to use a spotting scope in a car. April 25, 2010
William Tetzlaff
The device holds onto your car window, like a little vice, and provides a standard camera/spotting scope attachment. It also has a quick release, to get the scope on and off quickly.
The only disappointment was that a spotting scope with a prism, to allow looking down, does not work as well. You just cannot get your head high enough, because of the car top, to look down very well.
It is most steady with the car door closed, but can be used with the door open. This compensates if you have a scope with a prism. It can also mean that you can take the scope, and the little window mount, on an airplane, and skip the big tripod. If it is windy, the gusts will blow the door, and make it unsteady.
 Not what I expected from Nikon. December 19, 2008
D. Woods (Wyoming, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this particular window mount because it is made by Nikon. I thought that if it is a Nikon, then it will be a good one. I don't know if my window mount's performance is typical or not. But mine works well for horizontal positioning (side to side), but the vertical adjustment is very sloppy, and therefore proper vertical positioning (up & down) is usually achieved only after multiple tries. Once it is locked into position, it works very well, but it gets a bit frustrating at times to make the vertical adjustment. I'm beginnning to think I would have been just as well off buying the less expensive window mount.
 worthless for zoom lenses or spotting scopes May 30, 2010
Ronsen (Potomac, MD United States)
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.
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