Customer Reviews

Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter

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T-adapters can turn your telescope into an amazing telephoto lens and this one will work with any that have a 1.25" visual back. This piece has a 1.25" inserting slip connector which replaces the Star Diagonal on your telescope and the title given by Celestron is entirely misleading, it refers to a generic measurement of an inch (actually 1.25"). The faulty description continues in the product description: it WILL NOT FIT .96" visual backed telescopes such as the Celestron C90, or the Nexstar 4GT. In that case you'll need this part Celestron 93635-A T-Adapter for NexStar 4GT Those telescopes have a .96" visual back and the T-adapter has a female ring which screws over the visual back.

In either case you still need a T-Ring to connect to your camera, be careful there too as there are now ones for 58mm digital cameras that are larger than the older 35mm.

Getting Amazon to change these descriptions is difficult so hopefully this review can correct it.

The description for this product does not mention that using this T adapater will not allow the camera to focus on many Newtonian reflectors because the adapter basically extends the focuser and will not allow it to travel in far enough to achieve focus with the camera.

There are a few fixes for this. First, check the focuser on the scope to see if the eyepiece holder will unscrew and allow you to screw the camera's adapter directly to it. If not, you can purchase a 2x barlow (Celestron item # 93640) that includes a T-adaptor on it or a zoom lens with threads for a filter that will also allow you to directly attach your camera adapter such as Celestron's 8mm - 24mm item # 93230. Obviously, including a lens in the equation magnifies the image which you may or may not want.

The most expensive and intrusive is to replace the focuser with an aftermarket focuser that will allow this to work.

Other than the fact that it was not directly compatible with my scope, the quality of the T adapter was very good which is typical for Celestron products.

This product screws into the T-ring and hooks to my Canon Rebel-XTI as expected. The product attaches to my telescope as expected. Unforunately, I could not focus as is. The telescope required adjusting the mirror position to perfect the focus. So I learned something. Connected to a Tasco Luminova telescope.

I got this working with my Orion XT8 Dobsonian. But you need some more things with this. Of course you'll need a T-mount/ring to attach to the camera. I bought the Opteka mount for my Olympus E-500. You'll also need to add a barlow lens to the end of the adapter or else you won't be able to focus. Celestron has a package that bundles the adapter and barlow together if you don't already have a barlow.

Highly recommend this as a cheap way to venture into astrophotography.

it is a very good product. I have a sony alpha 200 digital camera and it is working very well.

What can I say? It does what it is intended to do, and does it well. I use it for adapting an SLR camera to a telescope, through the eyepiece port. It still requires a different T-mount adapter for each style camera I want to use, but allows for greater flexibility. I have adapters for my film and digital Olympus cameras, and my friend uses it with his Nikon. All he needed to buy was a separate Nikon T-mount adapter. You may possibly get some vignette with some combinations, but that is easily cropped out in post processing.

I use this T-adapter with an Opteka T-mount adapter and Canon XS DSLR to attach the camera to two different telescopes and the combination works perfectly. Recommended.

I Purchase the Celestron T-Ring / T-Mount Canon EOS and the Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter for my boyfriend for Christmas. On the first clear night when the moon was nice and big he set up the telescope and tested it out taking pictures. These adaptors worked great... they attached easily and after some playing he came out with a great picture of the moon using one of our Canon EOS Rebels. Great Job Manufacturers ... Good Product!

I received the Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter on time as promised. The adapter met or exceeded the advertised specifications and was well constructed. It performed great on my Dynamax 8 as expected. I would recommend it for use when the camera is mounted into the telescope eyepiece holder. Your eyepiece holder must be sturdy enough to hold a SLR or DSLR camera body. I did not have any problems with focusing on my Dynamax 8. Balancing my camera/telescope combination took a little work since I was using a 90 degree erecting eyepiece holder on my telescope. A straight through eyepiece holder may be better. If your telescope permits removal of the eyepiece holder then you may wish to get the Celestron T-Mount or the Opteka T-Mount Adapter to fit your particular SLR or DSLR camera. I later used the T-Mount Adapter to attach my camera directly to my telescope and eliminating the telescope's removable eyepiece holder. I did NOT have any focusing problems with the camera T-Adapter or the camera T-Mount adapter with my Dynamax 8 telescope. The adapters are designed to be used with the camera lens removed. The Celestron camera adapter permits the insertion of a 1.25 diameter plain barrel eyepiece into the adapter to increase the magnifying power but this reduces the light greatly due to the added lenses of the eyepiece and from the eyepiece projected image onto the film or camera sensor chip. The reduced light will require longer exposures and therefore require manual tracking or a telescope tracking device (clock drive). When using an inserted eyepiece into the camera T-Adapter, care must be taken to make sure that longer barrel eyepieces do not obstruct the camera's mirror flip-up action.

dont waist you money. this product doen't fit the celetron telescope viewfinder. I had to take it and modify it to sit further down into the viewfinder shaft so that my photos would be in focus.