From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 9, 2005 6:40:46 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: home made adapter

Hi Tim;

On 9-Jul-05, at 5:58 PM, Tim wrote:

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.

Yep - found that out later. Actually I wasn't aware that they started selling the boxed cameras again.

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.

One thing I'm not sure of with an M12x0.5 mm adapter is if your losing any light due to obstruction by the adapter. It's a pretty narrow path.

All my home built adapters fit around or outside the plastic lens mount, so the CCD is being fully exposed and nothing is their to block it.

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).

You can buy a case for the Unibrain M12x0.5 mounted board cameras for $6.00 USD from Unibrain - which again is "new to me".

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

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