I'm using a panasonic digital FZ-2. It has the big lens like the slrs. I mount the camera onto the 25mm lens of a 125mm Hugo reflector. I'm using a homemade camera mount to position the camera lens over the eyepiece. I made the camera mount out of a cardboard tissue box and a toilet roll. I cried when I found out how much a real camera-telescope coupling costs and that's how I found out how to make one with a tissue box.
My big problem is that it is very difficult to focus the image when I increase the magnification on the camera. I find that if I go too large in magnification on the camera it ends up splaying the image out of focus.
My cardboard camera mount is quite crude and centering the image using a smaller eyepiece is a difficult task because the tube frame of the reflector tends to flex and the image drops out of view in the 25mm lens of the telescope. I am sure if I spend enough time playing with the telescope I will eventually figure out how she moves when I'm trying to take a picture. The hard part is allowing for the drift or flex in the telescope. It's not simply a matter of positioning the planet dead centre in the eyepiece. I have to position it in the upper lefthand corner, and allow the flex of the telescope to drop it into the centre when the weight of the camera is added to the scope.
Anyone else have these sorts of problems when lining up the planet in the telescope?