Pentax uses the same cable release as the low end Canon cameras, so they are available premade for less than the individual parts cost from places like linkdelight, dealextreme, ephotoinc etc.
I recently splurged and paid $20 or so for the intervalometer version. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:54:31PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > Hello all! > > I was just wondering if anyone managed to build a home-made > variant of the cable release for the Pentax K-30? > > I've found the following links: > > http://www.hobbymaker.narod.ru/English/Articles/cable_sw_eng.htm > http://poildegris.free.fr/electronique/CS205/ > http://www.photosig.com/articles/1088/article > http://www.digisniper.com/photography/tutorials/advanced/ > > However it doesn't seem to work for me... > > From what I've seen I get 3V voltage between the middle contact > and "ground" (contact A and B in the image below), but no voltage > between C and B, or A and B for that matter. (And just coupling A and > B doesn't either focus or shot the image, neither does C and B. I > haven't tried all three together.) > > http://www.photosig.com/articles/1088/CS-205-schema.gif > > Any hints here? > > Thanks, > Ciprian. > > > P.S.: Initially I've sent this email to the Pentax users mailing > list (Yahoo), but so far no answers (granted since yesterday), and I > hope I have more luck on this one. :) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
