How stiff is your Cat6? Stranded Cat5 may be a better option, it's designed to be used as patch cabling. If you are using solid Cat6, you may find it a PITA to coil and uncoil when you need to use it.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/19/2011 11:08 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The pentax hot shoe extension cord that I picked up when I bought my >>> AF540 >>> was very expensive, and didn't work so well. A while later, I bought a >>> cheap third party one off some website, and it seems to work pretty well, >>> but it only has a convenient reach of about 6 feet before the pull on the >>> coiled cable gets to be a problem. >>> >>> Does anyone have any wireless hot shoe extension cables that they'd like >>> to >>> recommend? >> >> >> If you're not concerned with dedicated operation, I recommend the >> Cactus V5 RF remote triggers from Gadget Infinity : >> >> http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/cactus-wireless-flash-transceiver-v5-duo.html >> They've got the shutter release cable for Pentax as well. I've got >> three of these transceivers and they work well. > > > I use dumb triggers with my studio flashes. I wish I could trust my AF540 > to work as a dumb flash. with my luck, half the time it would decide to run > on "auto" where it would decide ISO and aperture to some wonky default. > > My experience with it over the past four years is that as soon as I try to > do anything but TTL with it, it goes psychotic. > > >> >> If you want dedicated flash operation, finding long cords is >> difficult. It took me four months to find and receive a 9.5m uncoiled >> flash extension cable ... even though it only cost me $50, it was a >> serious pain in the took us. A friend turned me on to making them >> myself, if I need another: >> >> - take a Promaster Pentax TTL dedicated flash cord >> - cut the ends off it >> - wire a pair of RJ45 female sockets to the ends >> - buy an appropriate length of quality ethernet cable for your needs > > > That's a clever idea. Since I've been wiring my house for data, I even have > a lot of the tools, not to mention a big spool of cat 6. > > > >> >> He's made several cables this way for both Olympus and Nikon studio >> flash setups. Very inexpensive to do, the trickiest bit is to find >> nice sockets and wire them up, but anyone handy with telephone wire >> type plugs and sockets shouldn't have any difficulty. He's had zero >> problems with remote flash cables up to 50' long. > > > Could you ask him for suggestions on what to use, so I don't have to repeat > the same mistakes he has made? > > In the mean time, a decent off the shelf $30 cable 10-20 feet long would be > great. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
