William Lewis
Wishing birdwatching paid the bills.
You just shouldn't be able to unscrew a scope from a tripod plate without touching the tripod plate, might as well just have a screw sticking out the bottom of the scope.
This topic has been discussed several times in this thread. I don't like the foot AT ALL. I believe the design of the tripod foot is, to put it bluntly, idiotic. How anyone can design a tripod foot nowadays WITHOUT a safety pin is beyond me.
Search for "ATC+foot". There's plenty of information on this thread. BTW, the first thing I'd do is use a 3/8'' screw and ditch the 1/4'' to 3/8'' adapter. Forget about cork and the like, it doesn't work. The only good combination is metal on metal. But that won't work here. I'd also use a tether. That's the second thing I'd do.
Hermann
I've also used it hand held (using local support for elbow or hand) and it works quite well (as designed).
As for forcibly unscrewing it from the plate: I have a quick release plate, that works well. The original Sirui plate is 60-ish + mm long and does not disturb hand-held ops. And works with a (car) window clamp as well.
A "screw sticking out the bottom of the scope" would not, I think, be practical. The "half-sleeve" is, though.
I've hardly used my three other scopes after getting the ATC (the fourth one is a 6" reflector and doesn't count).
Per
After I've had my morning coffee!Do you mind showing your ATC with the attached quick release plate on it?
The adapter is seen nested in the line to the sling.Aha I like the orange colour!
So you are using the 1/4 thread with your plate...
The adapter is seen nested in the line to the sling.
The burnt orange colour led to a delay, rumour has it that Swaro mixed the first batch incorrectly and had to redo the colour mix.
I needed it to match my Curios 😂🤣
Any good ideas for orange shoes😂? Make?The orange were really popular, so had to settled down with the green hehehe but that would be a great combo to used both orange for bino and scope plus orange shoes while birding! 😍🤤
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Any good ideas for orange shoes😂? Make?
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Thanks for the suggestion, but if the loctite had been adequate I wouldn’t have used the Voile strap.Or a bit of locktite on the thread hehehe