From: Bipin Gupta
Hello John, your idea is perfectly feasible - having the film era screw on cable release pushing a simple dual contact electrical switch wired to a Japanese 2.5 mm stereo pin which the Pentax uses for the very expensive DSLR cable release. If you google you will come up with plenty of other great ideas, including a home made aluminum bracket that mounts on the flash adapter and the other end of the bracket hovers over the shutter button. This end has a tapped hole where you screw on your film era cable release. Just stick a shirt button using double sided scotch tape so that the steel push rod does not damage the shutter release. I converted my old Pentax MZ5n electrical cable release by cutting the 3-prong adapter end, and soldering a Japanese 2.5 mm stereo pin. Bipin. camp: San Mateo, CA, and not from the far away enchanting land.
Right. I understand all that. Lots of different ways to make it work. The sticking point has been finding a usable socket with the correct thread to accept the old style cable release without having to murder an old film camera. -- 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.
