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From: "Matt Kozak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cable release question
| Does anyone out there know how the ZX series' electronic releases
| work?
Works fine:))
| There are three pins on the camera's socket... Do I just to short two
| of them or is there some hideous serial protocol?
No protocol... Connecting two of those three pins in different combinations
fires either AF or shutter. I don't remember the combinations at the
moment - I have the specification at work. But the whole stuff allows to
make the release that fires AF and shutter separately, i.e. the shutter can
be released without focusing. Pretty useful stuff. I've made such release at
home using a PC audio cord (the one that connects the audio adapter with the
CD) and an old car autolock remote control. The audio cord has the plug-in
that perfectly fits the camera socket (but it oryginally fits a 4-pin socket
so has to be narrowed - I did it with a lancet) and that remote control has
two buttons (and microswitches under them, which can be used if You're
familiar with a soldering iron). My friend used a casing and a circuit of an
old computer mouse:)
Hope this helps
Greetz
Artur
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