Nikon Binocular Window Mount

 (6 customer reviews)

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...Read more

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...Read more

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.