Quoting John <[email protected]>:
I've found the range to be somewhat limited, especially outdoors in
fairly bright light.
The wired remote was the "Cable Switch CS-205". I had one until the
button wore out (yeah, BUTTON, not the wire connection).
Looks like Ricoh has a new remote, the "Remote Control D".
http://www.pentaxwebstore.com/product/remote-control-d
Don't know exactly what the difference is between it and the Remote
Control F, but they're asking $0.05 less for it (???).
I found a cheap Chinese intervalometer that works with Pentax. It's
usually sold for the Canon Rebel models, but they use the same connector
& pin-out that Pentax uses. Here's the one Amazon offers:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/Pentax-Timer
Supposedly works with all of these cameras:
K100D,K110D, K10D, *ist Ds2, *ist D, *ist Ds, *ist, *istDL, *ist DL2
Samsung GX-1L, GX-1S, GX-10
Canon EOS 30, 33, 50E, 300, 300V, 3000, 50, 300D (Digital Rebel)
350D (Digital Rebel XT), 400D (Digital Rebel XTi), 450D (Digital
Rebel XSi), 500D, 1000D
Timer delay: 0s to 99hrs 59min 59s in 1s increments
Works for group shots because you can program it with a long enough
delay to easily walk back from the camera position and rejoin the
group.
I have one of those and it works well. The problem is with the Q
series which have no wired remote port. I have a couple of older
Pentax IR remotes which I find almost useless with the Q. Sometimes
they fire it, often they don't. It could be the batteries but I think
it's more likely to be an aiming issue.
I think the lack of modern Pentax cameras in the intervalometer
compatibility list is just lazyness on the part of the sellers.
There's no reason why the unit wouldn't work with more recent cameras.
Mine certainly works with the K200D and K-5.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On 3/26/2015 10:32 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
Does anyone else have problems with this remote? I find it
unreliable. Sometimes it actuates the shutter, sometimes it does not.
It always does eventually, but in the meantime it is irritating.
Pentax has another remote, the remote control wd. Anyone have
experience with it. Are there any third-party remotes that are good?
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
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