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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Cool way to mount your camera to youre car window.Jan 16, 2007
By B. Webber
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 found the following review helpful:
 worthless for zoom lenses or spotting scopesMay 30, 2010
By Ronsen
"hopper"
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 found the following review helpful:
 Not what I expected from Nikon.Dec 19, 2008
By D. Woods
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.
Simple Effective Window MountJan 24, 2012
By Steven
Pros: Good solid Construction, smooth traversing features, nice padding friction lock for the window, I used 60mm+ optic spotting scope with no problems in weight to design holding it to the window. I would suggest to use compact 50mm objective optics, but that is user preference for what you are doing from bird watching, spotting, camera use. Mine had a quick release detach for quickly mounting other optics with a quick release base feature. Simply pop in and turn the locking lever and it is secure. That is a nice feature to remove the optic for driving and then putting the optic in place in about 1 second secure rather than unlocking the window mount as a whole cumbersome unit. I read reviews elsewhere where it was said this was not a solid construction. Well, it is solid construction and that is not a problem on this model window mount. I would buy this again and recommend it to my friends.
Cons: None, it does what it was designed for and is solid construction. It would have been nice to have 2 other quick release pop in mounts for a camera / other as a kit complete for a few bucks more, but you can get them on here at Amazon.
Bottom Line: Worth the price and I would buy again for a compact spotting scope mount with a Quick Disconnect feature.
 Great, and reasonable price, way to use a spotting scope in a car.Apr 25, 2010
By William Tetzlaff
The device holds onto your car window, like a little vice, and provides a standard camera/spotting scope attachment. It also has a quick release, to get the scope on and off quickly.
The only disappointment was that a spotting scope with a prism, to allow looking down, does not work as well. You just cannot get your head high enough, because of the car top, to look down very well.
It is most steady with the car door closed, but can be used with the door open. This compensates if you have a scope with a prism. It can also mean that you can take the scope, and the little window mount, on an airplane, and skip the big tripod. If it is windy, the gusts will blow the door, and make it unsteady.
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