Well, it's time to "come clean".
My both posts on this thread were intended as a joke, - a friendly parody
on people complaining about the lack of the old magic feature in K-1.
(Being careful with respect to the attribution, I've even put quotation
marks around the text I took verbatim from PJ's earlier message. -
I hereby complete that delayed attribution.)
In reality, I haven't had a cable shutter release for more than 25 years.
I thought it was irrelevant enough, so it would be obvious that I was
joking. But, apparently, I was wrong. Oh, well!
It was interesting to learn that some manufacturers keep that feature.
Boris and, I suspect, Larry have realized that I was joking, or at least
suspected that..
Anyway, I hope I didn't offend anybody, and I hope P.J. will not hold a
grudge.
Cheers,
Igor
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Boris, you are missing an important point. That Remote Shutter Cable Release
is still working perfectly fine. It was able to work fine with
K-1000, so why shouldn't it work with K-1?!!!
Larry's solution has some merit, but it's too kludgy..
It would've been easy to have that in the shutter release button.
"I'm inclined to cut Ricoh/Pentax some slack for not including one. However
because of that I'm not in any rush to buy one.
However if price point is the only reason, then shame on them. I'd happily
spend 50-100 dollars more for" the shutter release button compatible with the
cable release, "which would probably cost them only 5-10 dollars more to
implement."
And I think Larry got my drift:
On 2/22/2016 2:01 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Ken Waller wrote:
What's wrong with using an infra red remote release?
Probably about the same thing as what's wrong with using the green
button rather than an aperture simulator.
;-)
Cheers,
Igor
Boris Liberman Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:38:25 -0800 wrote:
Silly... Either I miss some kind of a pun thread or continuation
thereof, but totally for free you can download an app (Android, at
least) that will release the shutter via IR port...
[...]
Larry Colen Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:01:42 -0800 wrote:
Igor PDML-StR wrote:
... Remote Shutter Cable Release...
... a simple and reliable one that looks like this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006O3LTQQ/
"I guess I'll be putting off the purchase for a while."
It's simple, take a block of plastic, drill and tap it for 3.2mm x0.5mm
pitch. drill two small holes in the side a bit past the end. Take an
electronic shutter release, cut the wires, strip them and insert them
until they are almost touching. When you press the trigger, it will
complete the connection between the two and it will work with your camera.
;-)
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