Well I've just finished building a small project and I guess I'll make it a riddle. What does a Mamiya 402 a Radio Shack 272-244 a small project box, 2 inches of telephone wire, hot glue and solder make? OK so I'll make it a little clearer. The Radio Shack part is a 3/32 stereo plug. Still nothing, OK, the Mamiya 402 is a "cable release adapter". So now you know, what it makes is a switch that accepts a standard cable release and activates the autofocus and fires the shutter on a Pentax DSLR. Now why would anyone want to make such a thing? Well it's relatively simple, I recently came into possession of a Pistol grip shoulder stock for a 35mm camera. it is very compact, breaks down into a very small package and has a built in cable release. A shoulder stock like this can give a stop of stability to hand held shots. To use it with a Pentax DSLR was a real PITA however. Nobody makes a such an adapter for Pentax cameras but most of these so I built one. It's not as pretty as it could be, but it seems to do the job. I can't wait to take it out tomorrow to try it out.
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