Does anyone know where I can get an old fashion mechanical cable release
*SOCKET* mounted to a switch so I can convert the mechanical plunge into
a closed circuit suitable for firing the shutter on Pentax DSLRs?
Other than finding a defunct camera & disassembling it for parts?
From: Larry Colen
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. :)
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