Blitz Hotshoe dSLR Camera Adapter with a Red Dot Finder COMBO. The Skywatcher Red Dot Finder (model 20743), Celestron Star Pointer (model 51630). Apr 20, 2017 - This is a hotshoe mount for a laser pointer. My use case is to mount a green laser to a camera to help point the camera for astrophotography. This is a hot shoe mounted laser with momentary switch that you can operate with finger (or even teeth) pressure. The laser is mounted on the hot shoe mount, and is adjustable for left/right and up/down. It can be installed or removed in seconds. It will work with Canon or Nikon DSLR. May work for other brands of DSLR, but I have not tested them. Once you found and reinstalled the screws, slide the adapter into the hot shoe of your dSLR camera, then secure it with the two tiny grub screws. Once the adapter secured, install the red dot finder onto the top V-shaped part of the adapter. Using a red dot finder with your DSLR. Turned out you can easily mount a Red Dot Finder on the hotshoe of your DSLR! This makes it very easy to see exactly where your camera is pointing at because of the bigger overview you have of ‘where you are’, so you are able to ‘star-hop’ with your DSLR.

Lacerta adapter for attaching of reflex sights to the hot shoe of SLR cameras ♦ suitable for all common DSLR cameras ♦ suitable also for Vixen Polarie and similar devices ♦ quick mounting in just a few steps. The hex key is supplied ♦ allows for accurate aiming without using die display - ideal for difficult lighting situations and in the night.

Most digital cameras these days come with some kind of electronic remote shutter release. Various solutions exist, using USB cables, smartphone apps, or dedicated remotes. [Steloherd] wasn’t happy with the options available for his Ricoh GRII, though, so built a rig to do things the old fashioned way.

Dslr Hot Shoe Laser Pointer Mountain

Dslr Hot Shoe Laser Pointer Mount Airy

[Steloherd] wanted to use an old-school mechanical release cable, so devised a way to use it to trigger the Ricoh’s standard shutter button. A small aluminium bracket was created, attached to the hot shoe on top of the camera via a mounting foot from a standard flash accessory. A spring plate was then created to help spread the load from the mechanical release pin, ensuring it triggers the camera effectively without damaging anything.

Installing the mechanical release proved difficult, as the DIN standard calls for an obscure M3.4 conical tapped thread. Rather than muck about finding rare tooling, [Steloherd] simply recut the thread on the release cable to a straight M3x0.5, and did the same for the bracket.

Dslr Hot Shoe Laser Pointer Mounts

Overall, it’s a tidy hack, and one that could be adapted to other cameras fairly easily. Other methods we’ve seen involve such odd choices as linear actuators harvested from air fresheners, if you’d believe it. As always, if it works, it works!