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Xtend-a-Sight™ Red Dot Sight Mounting adapter
for connecting a Red Dot Sight to the flash shoe of your camera.
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| The Photosolve Xtend-a-Sight lets you mount a Red Dot sight (typically found attached to rifles and pistols) to the flash shoe of your camera. This allows you to track moving objects much more accurately than the LCD or the viewfinder.
Essentially, the Xtend-a-Sight is a modern "sports finder" and you can put the strap of the camera around your neck, push the camera out in front of you, with the strap tight to your neck, sight through the Red Dot Sight at the object using the "red dot" that shows in the screen, half press for focus, and then take as many frames as your camera will allow as you follow the moving object. If you don't have a flash shoe on your camera, you can also mount the Xtend-a-Sight on a flash bracket, align the camera and the sight, and you're all set. IMPORTANT NOTE: Some newer camera models, notably the Panasonic FZ-50 TTL have slightly "different" hot shoes and reportedly would not accommodate the Xtend-a-Sight without slight sanding of the mount. The Xtend-a-Sight has now been modified and should fit the FZ-50 WITHOUT modification by the user. |
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<The Xtend-a-Sight mount with 3/8 and 7/8" Weaver Mount capability. Actual Version shown. Anodized Black. The mount is split at the rear, allowing it to separate slightly in the mount area. Unit includes an allen wrench to tighten a set screw in the side of the mount, locking the Xtend-a-Sight to the flash shoe. For reference: The shorter 3/8" mount is 1.6" long, and the overall length of the unit is 2.75". |
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< Xtend-a-Sight shown with BSA RD30 mounted (7/8" standard Weaver mounting). This size of Red Dot Sight is a bit easier to see through, compared with the smaller sight shown below.This sight is typically 4 to 5 times as expensive as the smaller Daisy unit shown below.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you get one of these RDS units make CERTAIN that it comes with 7/8" mounting hardware. At least one unit (MADE IN CHINA) had 3/8" hardware and will NOT fit the Xtend-a-Sight as the spacing is too long between mounts. |
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< Xtend-a-Sight shown with Daisy Red Dot Sight mounted (3/8" standard Weaver mounting). While this size of sight works just fine, it's a bit more difficult to use, given the smaller size of the viewing screen. The good news is that it's a lot less expensive. | |
MORE INFORMATION
Xtend-a-Sight User Guide
4 pages, PDF
Red Dot sights are available from numerous sources. The two shown here were purchased at WalMart, far below the regular retail pricing.
Here are some additional source links:
OpticsPlanet
http://www.opticsplanet.net/red-dot-scopes.html
Shop at Amazon.com
For the Amazon search box above, just put in "Red Dot Sight" (with the quotes). In addition, many "paint-ball" outlets carry Red Dot Sights. The only thing to remember is that the Xtend-a-Sight can mount 3/8" and 7/8" Weaver mounts (which are pretty typical), so get one with either of those two sizes. Photos Birds in Flight (BIF) and Aircraft in Flight (AIF) that were taken using a Red Dot Sight. The photographer is Bernard Zee. Birds in Flight (BIF) taken by Steven Davis, Canada using the Xtend-a-Sight and a Red Dot Sight, presented in the photosolve gallery. Birds in Flight (BIF) taken by Steve Wolfe using the Xtend-a-Sight and a Red Dot Sight. Birds in Flight (BIF) from David Pountney in the UK using the Xtend-a-Sight and a Red Dot Sight.
Several customers have begun using the Xtend-a-Sight to shoot their favorite kinds of photos. photosolve is pleased to provide links to those libraries:
http://home.comcast.net/~szee1b/
http://trailhiker.smugmug.com/gallery/899628/1
http://trikietowers.smugmug.com/gallery/2215275
