{"id":4115,"date":"2020-04-23T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2022-10-04T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:57:25","slug":"nexus-camera-mount-film-your-sight-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunmagwarehouse.com\/blog\/nexus-camera-mount-film-your-sight-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexus Camera Mount – Film Your Sight Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to capture the sight picture of your rifle scope<\/a>? Holding your smartphone up to the lens doesn’t quite cut it. You have to get the lens in just the right position, and keeping it there is a real challenge. Well, Nexus Outdoors has a CNC Aluminum camera mount that allows you to use almost any video camera or smartphone to film your rifle scope.<\/p>\n

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This article is from May 2018 – but the info remains good! <\/em><\/p>\n

Filming or photographing a rifle scope sight picture is not as easy as it seems. There are digiscoping adapters available, like the Meopta Meopix and Phone Skope phone cases. But those only work with optics that do not have eye relief, like binoculars or spotting scopes. We posted about the Meopix and Phone Skope<\/a> earlier, if you want to check out that article. The Nexus Mount solves this problem by holding your camera in the position you want.<\/p>\n

Installing The Nexus Camera Mount<\/h2>\n

The Nexus Mount attaches to your top rail via a rail mount. The rail mount does not have a cross lug for recoil, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. I have not tried this on hard-recoiling guns so I am concerned that pure tension and friction may not be enough to keep the mount in place. The one benefit to the lack of a recoil lug is that you are not forced to align the rail mount to use a Picatinny slot.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the photo below. I am using a single mount for the scope on my Ruger Precision Rimfire<\/a>. There is plenty of rail behind the mount. However, due to the position of the rear release lever, I only have half of the available rail to grab onto.<\/p>\n

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You can see how the mount hangs over and past the rail.<\/p>\n

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All you need to do next is attach the phone mount to the cross-bar and position your phone. The Nexus mount allows for height adjustment and you can slide the phone mount left or right. The long bar can slide forwards or back to help you position the camera lens for proper eye relief.<\/p>\n

The long bar has preset holes and you bolt it into position with matching threaded holes in the mount.<\/p>\n

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For height adjustment, the mount can slide up or down. Four threaded holes are there so you can adjust the height of the mount a decent amount, but most likely you will have issues with the cross-bar hitting the top of your stock .<\/p>\n

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The cross-bar has one long slot so you can finely adjust your camera left or right.<\/p>\n

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I noticed that the vertical and horizontal position of the camera lens is crucial and that is why those directions have slotted adjustments for fine increments. In comparison, the camera’s distance from the eye-piece is not as crucial so the sliding bar has 1\/4″ hole positions.<\/p>\n

Problems With My iPhones<\/h2>\n

While the Nexus mount has plenty of adjustment capabilities, I had some issues using it with my iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 5S. The phone mount that Nexus sent with their camera mount could not clamp down to hold my iPhone 5S. The phone is too narrow so the phone clamp bottoms out too soon.<\/p>\n

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Then I have issues using my iPhone 7 Plus. This is due to the dual camera lenses.  The first issue is how the iPhone 7 Plus automatically switches between lenses. If it chooses the wrong lens, then you have to try and get the camera to switch back the lens you want or shift the whole assembly up or down depending on the lens you want. When using an iPhone X, the lenses are side by side in this orientation so it is easy to just slide the phone left or right inside the phone mount.<\/p>\n

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The problem of selecting the lenses is not as bad as this other problem of positioning the lenses with the body of the phone.  As I said earlier, the Nexus mount has a wide range of adjustability but this does not matter due to the phone I am using. There is only one position in which this phone will work with a scope. I have to place the phone mount all the way to the left but when my phone in the mount, the side volume button is positioned directly under the phone mount. Unless I use a thick phone case, the mount pushes the button, resulting in accidental activation of my camera. It takes pictures and starts or stops my videos when I don’t want it to.<\/p>\n

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Couldn’t I just position the camera 180 degrees and have the mount hold onto it from the right? Nope. Not only is there not enough room but now the lenses are too high up and I cannot lower the Nexus mount low enough for the lenses to look through the scope.<\/p>\n

Another issue is how far the mount positions the phone. I have difficulty shouldering my rifle while aiming through the phone screen. It is too close to my face. Take a look at the photo below. The camera mount sits directly above my cheek rest so it makes shooting my M1A awkward.<\/p>\n

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Recording Your Shot<\/h2>\n

The issues I have with the Nexus camera mount are minor compared to the footage you can capture through your scope. With a rimfire rifle, you can film your impact on-target. However, due to muzzle climb on higher-powered rifles, you lose sight of your target for a brief moment when the rifle is shot.<\/p>\n