Hi! > A job I'm going after will require some photography where I will be a > considerable distance from the camera. > > Timing is critical, so in my head I'm eliminating the IR remote. > However, if someone has experience with it and wants to share any > good or bad experiences with range and delay, I'd love to hear about > it. > > Ideally, I'd like to do this with a foot pedal. Between that and the > length of the cord I'll need, I suspect I'll have to build it or get > someone to build it for me. Probably the latter -- I can't even > build a fire. > > Can anyone give me ideas or links to info about building an > electronic release for a modern Pentax body? It'll probably be a > DS2, but if I nab the job as a going concern I might purchase another > body to use just for that.
Aaron, I've seen on eBay the third party remote cords for Pentax that can be quite long. Perhaps you could look it up there... I've a third party remote that is rather short, probably a foot or two, but it works properly and also I bought it on eBay. HTH. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
