John Black wrote: > Can anyone recomend a GOOD STURDY cable release??? There seems be be a > lack of good ones on the market.
I assume you are talking manual cable releases. If you don't mind spending more than forty bucks, Linhof makes the finest ones I have ever used. You can literally tie them into a tight knot and they still work with no resistance. They have a little metal knob that you tighten to hold the shutter open and a clear plastic coating on the cable. They come in different lengths. I have two. I've been using one of them for years, and I still use it most days now. They will probably last a lifetime. I wish I would have bought my first one sooner. I'm sure I had already spent $30 or $40 bucks on cheap ones by the time I got the Linhof. A cheaper alternative would be the Minolta cable release, but it's still probably the next best one. Mine sometimes stays locked though because of the twist-to-lock design and this is no good when you are counting a time exposure. I used to like Nikon AR-2 and AR-3 cable releases, but I have none left because the last two that I had kinked and bound up at the end of the cable. :( My Stroboframe cable release lasted TWO days and bound up! It had no lock either. Dave Cohen Photographer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2313
