Rich Tenney got an advance peek at my new parallelogram, and it's all-wood version, still under construction. Photos should go to Patrick soon. Rich, thanks for stopping by and checking things out. My AOL browser won't support the javascript attachment software on the Yahoo page! The camera software and my Kodak imaging program won't allow me to alter the size of the file, so I can only get one image on a diskette...things are getting ridiculous... I'll download the images directly from the camera to my office computer, which is much more aptly enabled than my home machine. I'll then try and get them to Patrick from there. Sorry, borrowed camera... One neat thing about it, though, was that it can be used in the afocal mode...I snapped a foto of the sun through my 50mm f/9 refractor, with Baader material, hand-held camera. Sunspots are clearly seen. The digital zoom got a bit chunky at extreme magnification, as resolution was reduced quite a bit. Better to use optical zoom by switching to a shorter f.l. eyepiece, or using a Barlow. Those of you with digital cameras may want to try this simple technique on the eclipse next Monday. It now looks positive that I'll have both mounts up and running at binopalooza. Rich is donating a tripod for the wood prototype, a clone of the one I used for the aluminum version. These tripods came from garage-sale small alt-az refractors. I retained the central pivot bearing, and they are perfect for mounting a parallelogram. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com