I wonder ... can a PDA be programmed as a remote for it? And can that remote then be set on a timer function?
I picked up one of those $3.99 remotes off eBay for the K-x. A simple 555 timer on the button switch would do it ... If you can and want to build something. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliott >-----Original Message----- >From: Bruce Walker [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, February 3, 2011 01:51 PM >To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >Subject: Re: K5 > >I thought so, and that's what I'm suggesting: a possible way to >interface a PC via USB to any Pentax camera that has a cable release >socket. It would be a DIY project as I don't think anyone has done this >to date (Googling turned up zip). > >Here, for example, is a USB i/f lighting some LEDs: >http://www.dlpdesign.com/images/bit-bang-usb.pdf > >Just hook this thing up to close a cable release circuit and *click*. > >-bmw > > >On 11-02-03 12:44 PM, Robert Blakely wrote: >> I will be shooting ~32 shots, each a multisecond exposure, thru each of 4 >> filters, perhaps up to ~128 in total. Automated computer control is almost >> necessary to keep me from going nuts. >> >> Bob... >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> I don't mind if you don't like my manners. >> I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. >> I grieve over them on long winter evenings. >> -- Humphrey Bogart, "The Big Sleep" >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Bruce Walker >> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 1:21 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: K5 >> >> On 11-02-02 1:43 PM, Robert Blakely wrote: >>> Tnx. Well, guess I'll wait for the "K1" and see it's tether capable... >> Robert, have you considered using the shutter cable release? The remote >> shutter cable is just a single 2-wire circuit that you close to actuate. >> >> If you are at all handy with a soldering iron you should be able to >> interface a K-7 or K-5 (or K20, etc) to a PC using an external interface >> (eg optocoupler and one of those USB prototyping kits). >> >> -bmw >> > > >-- >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. > -- 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.
