How does a camera, spotting scope or binoculars attach to a TrekPod?
Cameras (and other devices like spotting scopes, etc.) mount to the TrekPod (on the MagMount ball head actually) through the use of adapters called Mag Adapters that are supplied with your TrekPod. The TrekPod comes with one light force (LF) Mag Adapter which is silver in color and is intended for small digital cameras. You will also receive a black heavy force (HF) Mag Adapter which is intended for use with larger cameras like DSLR’s and SLR’s, spotting scopes, binoculars and binocular mounts, etc. The Mag Adapter mounts to your camera in an industry-standard (¼””-20) mounting socket that virtually every camera on the market has today. Please see the PDF document which shows you in detail how this works. Binoculars that have the ¼”-20 threaded mounting socket will work directly with the appropriate Mag Adapter (in most cases the black, heavy force one). Other binoculars have a specific tripod mounting accessory that is available, and most all binoculars can be used with one of the man
