Binocular and the Motorola Droid video-2009-11-23-16-40-20

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 1:44 am

Motorola Droid lens is put behind the lens of an $1000 8x32 Leica Binocular. In this case the eye cup is down. I believe it is easier if the eye cup is out as you can rest your finger between the droid and the binocular for proper distance spacing. If you had a spacer of some kind, rubber washer...it would take one less alignment element away. As you can see in the video, you have to do all of these at the same time: 1. hold the focused binocular on your subject which you can't see through because you are looking at the screen of the droid 2. align the droid lens to the binocular, that is the distance between the two lenses, left to right, and up and down. The binocular and the Droid must be centered and aligned to each other. Their is a small sweet spot where it is almost perfect, just like your eye would see it. 3. look at the screen of the droid to see if the lenses are aligned and staying on the subject including ignoring the glare on the screen and the fact that you can barely see. It is difficult to hold the the lens of the Droid the correct distance from the lens of the binocular. It also has to be aligned left to right and up to down. Their is glare that comes from the Droid screen making it difficult to see what you are videotaping and if you are aligned. If the binocular was mounted on a tripod or if you had two people, one to hold the binocular and the other to hold the droid, it would be easiser. When you are locked on and lined up, the video quality is very ...