Thanks, Bob, I somehow missed your other post. I have my foot pedal from my old darkroom somewhere in the basement that I should be able to cannibalize. (A former employee managed to blow out the matching timer, and it was close enough to the shuttering of the colour darkroom that I just pressed an old sweep-hand GraLab back into service for a few weeks. But anyways, when I sold that darkroom equipment, the footpedal didn't match anything and so it remained in a box of odds and ends.)
-Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: loooooooong distance remote or IR release Date: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:04 am Size: 1K To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> On Jun 22, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > See, there's what I need to know about! How'd you do the foot pedal? I mentioned it in an earlier post. I found an old foot pedal switch for an enlarger in a camera store, bought it for next to nothing, and put a mini audio plug (from Radio Shack) on the end of its cable in place of the odd fitting it came with. There is a socket on the PocketWizard units for a remote cable, and I just plug it into the transmitter. You can buy cables to hook to your camera from PocketWizard dealers, but they're kind of expensive. I found it cheaper to buy short cable switches and cut the cords. You can put male and female mini audio connectors on the cut cord so you can still use the cable switch when you don't need the distance of the radio. I haven't done one for Pentax, but I can't imagine it being too hard. I've done Nikon, Canon and Minolta, as well as Rollei medium format. This lets me control all of these cameras from a common radio transmitter/receiver set by just switching cables. If you're not handy with a soldering gun you can probably find a local electronics or computer repairer who will do the soldering for you for a minimal charge. It only takes a few minutes. Before going to radio, I used infrared to fire my remote cameras. I pirated the guts of the receiver from an old slide projector with IR remote. That one required a couple of relays and minor modification to make the slide projector's receiver run on power from a 9-volt battery. I used to build a lot of my own stuff, but those were easier times. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
