I was looking at doing that also, but never did after I saw you can get them for $5-6 from eBay. It seriously wasn't worth the time (to me) for that little bit of money. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=CS-205+Pentax&_sop=15 (Sort by lowest price)
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! > > I was just wondering if anyone managed to build a home-made > variant of the cable release for the Pentax K-30? > > I've found the following links: > > http://www.hobbymaker.narod.ru/English/Articles/cable_sw_eng.htm > http://poildegris.free.fr/electronique/CS205/ > http://www.photosig.com/articles/1088/article > http://www.digisniper.com/photography/tutorials/advanced/ > > However it doesn't seem to work for me... > > From what I've seen I get 3V voltage between the middle contact > and "ground" (contact A and B in the image below), but no voltage > between C and B, or A and B for that matter. (And just coupling A and > B doesn't either focus or shot the image, neither does C and B. I > haven't tried all three together.) > > http://www.photosig.com/articles/1088/CS-205-schema.gif > > Any hints here? > > Thanks, > Ciprian. > > > P.S.: Initially I've sent this email to the Pentax users mailing > list (Yahoo), but so far no answers (granted since yesterday), and I > hope I have more luck on this one. :) > > -- > 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. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
