What is the best camera tilt corrector out there?

[gregbradley]

I know about the Gerd Neuman camera tilt unit and it seems to be the gold standard. But I occasionally hear of other types out there.

What would you recommend for a camera tilt corrector?

Greg.

[Atmos]

I’m currently looking into https://octopi.space/
It’s certainly not cheap but I’m hearing some good reviews due to their compactness.

[Ryderscope]

Testar have several listed in their web site:

https://www.testar.com.au/collections/tilters

[gregbradley]

The Baader one looks good. It's a bit thinner than the Gerd Neuman one which I mainly hear about. But it still has the side screw adjustments rather than on the face where they are hard to get to.

Also quite a bit cheaper. I have a set of Baader eyepieces and they are very high quality so Baader are a reliable brand for me,

Greg.

[gregbradley]

Despite them saying their adapter is thin it's quite a bit thicker than the Baader or the Gerd Neuman. 10mm versus 17.5mm.

Greg.

[Joshua Bunn]

This is true, but is is also a backspacing unit and has lateral displacement adjustment built in, so you save some BF there.

I'm making one of these now for a customer, for a large square camera, which will have tilt, lateral adjustment and backspacing adjustment all independent of each other.

[Tilt]

You have my attention with all those independent adjustments. With backspacing, how many mm does this device use?

[JA]

Hi Greg,

I don't know about best, but I do like the simplicity of the push-pull screw tilt adjusters built in to the front mounting plate of various brand/model cameras, like the ZWO6200 or the like, giving up virtually no further back-focus distance. You'd need a very short or modified Allen key to adjust them in situ though.

Best
JA

[gregbradley]

That sounds good. What are the details of that?

Greg.

[AnakChan]

+1 to Greg's question to Joshua. I'm curious too :D.

Another is the Photon Cage but that's quite $$$ too.

[Joshua Bunn]

For this particular camera, it adds about 10mm of backfocus, +/- 2mm for backfocus adjustment. Its a bit of a big unit for this camera, because its a square camera, round cameras like the ZWO and QHY ones would make the unit smaller and lighter. Its also got +/- 2mm or lateral movement if your chip is not centered on the optical axis.


Its also not the lightest thing, as there are 4 main components to it, but future versions and ones for round cameras can be lighter.


Cheers
Josh

[gregbradley]

It still sounds good.
Greg