From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>
Date: July 9, 2005 5:58:45 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: home made adapter
Hi folks:
been away for a while.
My Aplux version of the fire-i has the smaller lens mount, and I remember that the
Unibrain website didn't have specs on the mount for the cased camera.
I would think that the simplest thing to do would be to change the lens mount to the
12mm size, so that the Mogg adapters will work.
Better still would be to start with the board camera and make a case for it (or use some
sort of project box for a case).
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:
Hi Pat;
Well maybe I am wrong then - they don't state what the Boxed camera
uses for a mount at
http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/fire-i_dig_cam/
digital_camera_mac.htm
or here
http://www.unibrain.com/support/tech_specs/fire-i_camera/tech_specs.htm
I also thought they had discontinued the "boxed" model when they
couldn't get plastic cases anymore.
It's weird that their board level cameras use a completely different
housing and mount than this other camera does, because the picture of
the board camera housing at:
http://www.1394store.com/eshop/product.asp?dept%5Fid=55&pf%5Fid=2051
doesn't look at all like the one for the Boxed camera shows. One
would think economies of scale would mean they would adapt the same
standard.
So which camera did you buy Willie? Was it the boxed cameras as shown
above or the Board Level Camera with the $6.00 case?
In case some one wants to compare, I measured my M12x0.5m mounts here
and the outside diameter of it is 14 mm or 0.55 inches. The Inner rim
edge is 12.5 mm or 0.49 inches.
Sorry about the confusion..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
milton@o...
www.outcastsoft.com
On 7-Jul-05, at 7:53 AM, pmf_astronome wrote:
Hello Milton,
The camera was purchased from 1394store.com in early June, so it's
pretty recent. S/N 0040042144.
Pat
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...>
wrote:
Hi Pat;
How old is this unibrain camera your talking about then?
The ADS Pyro camera I had used a 10mm diam lens on it. That lens
would drop completely inside (without touching the walls) of the
unibrain cameras I have here.
Also i have a Kritter USB camera here and the Unibrain Cameras
(including the packaged one) I have here are interchangeable and all
M12x0.5mm.
The plot thickens..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
milton@o...
www.outcastsoft.com
On 6-Jul-05, at 8:32 AM, pmf_astronome wrote:
Sorry, one more follow-up. Just ran down to our machine shop to
measure the (packaged) Fire-i lens mount. It's M10x1.0 (1.0 cm
O.D.,
1/mm thread pitch). I've shot an email off to Steven Mogg to
see if
he can machine an adapter for that conveniently. Will post
when I get
a reply.
P.M. Fry
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "pmf_astronome" <pat.fry@s...>
wrote:
Hi guys,
Just wanted to confirm that the packaged unibrain fire-i with
case (as
opposed to the board camera version) does have a nonstandard
lens
mount, NOT M12x0.5. I've had to fashion my own adapter as
well, as
the Mogg UWAL-F does not fit.
P.M. Fry
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Willie Strickland
<willie@i...>
wrote:
At 6:12 PM -0600 7/5/05, Milton Aupperle wrote:
He's wrong and yes it does fit. The thread is precisely
M12 x 0.5
(I
measured it and Canada is Metric). Also the engineering and
manufacturing diagrams from Unibrain clearly state they
use an
M12x0.5m. Also on the Unibrain website
<http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products/fire-i_boa
rd_cam/fire->http://www.unibrain.com/1394_products
/fire-i_board_cam/fire-
i_board_camera.htm
Thanks Milton. So I guess I will go ahead and order his
longest
M12x0.5 adapter.
--
Willie Strickland
willie@i...