Shutterbug Strasse

Posted by mhardy6647 (A) on December 26, 2007 at 15:12:24

OK, here's the deal. Mrs. H is a birder of some seriousness. Mr. H isn't, but he likes optics, so he tries to keep the Mrs. well-supplied.

She has an older Swarovski ST-80 SD spotting scope. This guy has the big cast mounting foot with two threaded holes for tripod mounting: the big one is (IIRC) a 3/8"-something, and there's a smaller one. The thread on the smaller hole fits the "video pin" supplied with the (old) Manfrotto tripod foot for the Swarovskis.

The scope is forever coming loose (from torque on the scope body), and the video pin is too short to do much good in that regard. The stud appears to be 1/4", but it's not 1/4"-20 (determined that empirically). Any idea what the thread size is on the Manfrotto "video pin"?

I think the new Swarovski scopes will chuck directly into the Manfrotto tripod heads without a screw-in foot to adapt them, but that's a pretty small reason to replace a pretty good scope.

Thanks!!



I've long intended to just cut a length of appropriate
all the best,
mrh