From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
Pentax uses the same cable release as the low end Canon cameras,
so they are available premade for less than the individual parts
cost from places like linkdelight, dealextreme, ephotoinc etc.
I didn't know about the compatibility with Cannon (someone else
also suggested this on the pentax-users mailing list).
I'll check both E-bay, DealExtreme, etc., unfortunately there are
a few disadvantages:
* I hope they ship in Romania;
* it will take forever to get them; (2-3 weeks at least if from China;)
* I'll have to go to customs (if not shipped from EU), and I have
no idea what fee they'll apply (it also depends on the customs officer
"mood");
I recently splurged and paid $20 or so for the intervalometer version.
There is a single Pentax reseller in Romania that has it, and as
I've said on the pentax-users mailing list:
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As a side note about costs, in Romania where I live, the CS-205
from Pentax costs about 35 pounds (after roughly applying exchange
rate), and the "home made" parts at most 2 pounds. I don't want to be
cheep, but paying for the CS-205 almost 10% of the camera cost seems a
little bit too much... (And unfortunately there is only one Pentax
reseller.)
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This means roughly 50 US$ only for the basic CS-205 version...
Ciprian.
How about Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk) from the UK? Is that considered
inside the EU for customs purposes? It looks like they can ship to Romania.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=524836
They have a "Remote Release Switch Cable RS-60E3 for Canon EOS Digital
Rebel" that will work with Pentax DSLRs. The fine print says "Compatible
with: ...Pentax (Replacement for CS-205),
K10D/K110D/K100D/K20D/K200D/KM, *ist D/DS/DS2/DL/DL2/K10, MZ-6, MZ-L,
ZX-L, ..."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remote-Release-Switch-RS-60E3-Digital/dp/B007SNK6YM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1368640099&sr=1-1&keywords=Remote+switch+for+canon+digital+rebel
OR
http://tinyurl.com/cpuzcty
(If the first URL wraps wrong & won't play nice)
On-line currency converter says it's about 4.25 Euros (3.59 GBP).
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