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Getting Started
The SteadyPix EZ comes pre-assembled. See Figure 3 to familiarize yourself with its parts.
To capture images through your telescope, spotting scope, or binoculars, both its eyepiece
and the smartphone's camera lens must be precisely centered relative to the round hole in
the SteadyPix EZ's plate. First, position the smartphone as follows:
1.
Loosen the phone clamp knob on the back of the SteadyPix.
Place your phone against the plate with screen facing up (Figure 4A).
2.
3.
Move the phone so that the camera lens is centered in the hole in the back plate,
when viewed from the back side of the SteadyPix (4B). Then slide the side and end
clamps inward so they grip the phone in that position.
4.
Tighten the phone clamp knob.
5.
Confirm that the phone is held securely in the clamps on all sides. The clamps are
rubber covered and angled inward to prevent the phone from slipping out, no matter
what the angle.
Now you will clamp the SteadyPix EZ onto the eyepiece of your telescope, spotting scope,
or binocular. For a telescope or spotting scope eyepiece, it may be easiest to remove the
eyepiece from the scope and install it in the SteadyPix, then re-insert the eyepiece in the
scope with SteadyPix and phone attached. Binocular eyepieces are not removable.
1.
Looking at the back side of the SteadyPix, rotate the eyepiece clamp knob
counterclockwise to move the three clamp posts outward far enough to fit over the
eyepiece.
2.
Place the eyepiece, with top end down, over the hole in the SteadyPix, making sure
the eyepiece is resting against the SteadyPix (Figure 5A).
Front side
Sliding phone
end clamp
Figure 3. Parts of the SteadyPix EZ
4
Eyepiece
clamp knob
Hole
Plate
Sliding phone
side clamp
Back side
Eyepiece
clamp posts
Phone
clamp
knob
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