I've been using two very ordinary cable releases with my P30T since it arrived and have had no problems. I guess they make electrical contact. The manual say's use a Switch OR Cable Release 50 and adds cable release 30 won't work.
Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: My new toys and interesting trivia > Some of you may remember my yard sale Mamiya Super 23 and Metz 45 CT1. The > Mamiya has been converted into a 500mm mirror lens. Although it says > Quantaray, it's the Samyang Keppler mentions in the latest edition of Pop > Photo. I haven't had a chance to do more that play with it in the yard yet, > but seems to be pretty decent. There is a fair amount of fall off around the > edges, but, condidering what it is, the colors and sharpness are pretty > good. If I'm able to keep bright highlights out of the "bokeh" areas, the > doughnuts are not visible. > > I've been using it on the P30t, and discovered something interesting about > it. Although the manual says a cable "switch" is necessary to use the cable > release socket (mounted on the side of the lens mount), I've found that a > standard, run of the mill cable release works just fine. I'm guessing that > what happens is that when depressed, the circuit is completed just like a PC > flash terminal. There's no "give", just depress the release and the shutter > fires. > > Bill > >
