Nikon Binocular Window Mount

by Nikon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 3.4 x 3.1 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006LRWI
• Item model number: 7070
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,427 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2002

Product Description

Attaches to any automobile side window.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool way to mount your camera to youre car window., January 15, 2007

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B. Webber (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This thing is useful if you want to take pictures of things out of your car window but arent very good at handholding a camera. Or its useful if you need to take pictures on the go without having time to set up a big tripod. It is almost like mounting your tripod head to your car window. It is very safe and sturdy on the window and will not scratch it. It has rubberized grips where is holds onto the window and also a quick release same as most tripods have. It dosent have all the mosements a tripod can do, but does its job well. The only complaint I have about this product is that if your car was on uneven ground there is no control to correct the horizontal axis on the camera. All you can do in this case is to put the window mount on the window crooked to compensate, but you can only go so far doing that before you run out of room and it becomes unstable. I bought 2 of these products and they are both working well. Out of all similar window mounts I was looking at this one works the best.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worthless for zoom lenses or spotting scopes, May 29, 2010

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Ronsen "hopper" (Potomac, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nikon Binocular Window Mount (Electronics)

This Nikon car window mount is worthless for panning either a spotting scope or a super zoom lens camera.
I agree with another reviewer here who thinks the name "Nikon' and a hefty price ($35) should get you a device that works well.
Ten or more years ago Bushnell had a well-designed and built unit that looked and worked like this but it is no longer made. "Nikon"
appears to have bought or taken that design and redone some of it and then cut the most important corners in building it. As a result,
you might think this unit should work (the name "Nikon" and the proven design, right?). Wrong. This is a worthless ripoff.
This unit has both vertical and horizontal axis rotations and screw-detentes. Once the unit is mounted to the window, you should be able to
fix either H/V axis and slew the mounted scope/camera through the other axis independently, accurately and smoothly.
In this Nikon unit, however, the vertical axis has a built-in, permanent slop of several degrees so that a 15+ power scope sags
more than a full field of view before the barrel can be stopped and will rotate horizontally on a fixed elevation. Thus, you cannot aim
high powered optics at the horizon and scan it, reliably. Further, the tightening screw cannot be tightened enough to really
stop the sag completely, so there is no way to outwit the poor performance.
The window mounting clamp is also shaky because its clamps apply their force at single point so the clamps will easily rotate on the glass.
The window clamps also do not compensate for the now universal inward and upward slant of all front windows in passenger cars --
so there is a permanent upward tilt (arc) to horizontal panning.
There is no mechanism to balance a spotting scope or long lens/camera combo -- it always "leans" out, tending to produce a permanent downward sag.
Most of these problems could be overcome by jury rigs if only the joints could be tightened to hold the optics securely. But "Nikon" built
this thing so poorly it is hopeless. Don't waste your money unless you will use this only for a airy-light wide angle movie or
video camera and you aren't very particular.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected from Nikon., December 19, 2008

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D. Woods (Wyoming, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nikon Binocular Window Mount (Electronics)

I bought this particular window mount because it is made by Nikon. I thought that if it is a Nikon, then it will be a good one. I don't know if my window mount's performance is typical or not. But mine works well for horizontal positioning (side to side), but the vertical adjustment is very sloppy, and therefore proper vertical positioning (up & down) is usually achieved only after multiple tries. Once it is locked into position, it works very well, but it gets a bit frustrating at times to make the vertical adjustment. I'm beginnning to think I would have been just as well off buying the less expensive window mount.