How close should the site be to your eye???

[Jethers203 0]

How close should the site be to your eye???

I just top mounted my pc-105 onto my Optik and got a site extender as well as a site. I was just curious as to how far from the eye the site should be.

Thanks for all the help.

Clint

[quade 4]

While there are no absolute rules, consider placing the ring sight so that its edges will be at roughly the edges of your frame. That might be top to bottom or side to side, whatever feels best to you, but it gives you some additional information about framing your shot. You'll know if the formation is roughly filling the edges of the ring, you probably are just about the right distance from the formation.

Make sense?

quade -
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[ltdiver 3]

Wanting to keep things as close as possible to minimize any snag points....my ring site is a finger width away from my goggle lens. Works great for me.

ltdiver

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[Jethers203 0]

Ok, that information is helpful. Thanks.

Now, what about when I'm filming something far away? Today after landing, I was filming another jumper land and I was aiming to low. He was about 50 ft away and I didn't even have his canopy in frame.

The site is dead on when I am filming, but at further distances it is off.

Any help would be appreciated.

Clint

[Zee 0]

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Ok, that information is helpful. Thanks.

Now, what about when I'm filming something far away? Today after landing, I was filming another jumper land and I was aiming to low. He was about 50 ft away and I didn't even have his canopy in frame.

The site is dead on when I am filming, but at further distances it is off.

Any help would be appreciated.

Clint

The problem you're running in to is caused by the position difference between your eye and the camera. Mr. Quade has an excellent write up about Parallax on his web site that you should check out -
Clicky

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