On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > The pentax hot shoe extension cord that I picked up when I bought my AF540 > was very expensive, and didn't work so well. A while later, I bought a > cheap third party one off some website, and it seems to work pretty well, > but it only has a convenient reach of about 6 feet before the pull on the > coiled cable gets to be a problem. > > Does anyone have any wireless hot shoe extension cables that they'd like to > recommend?
If you're not concerned with dedicated operation, I recommend the Cactus V5 RF remote triggers from Gadget Infinity : http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/cactus-wireless-flash-transceiver-v5-duo.html They've got the shutter release cable for Pentax as well. I've got three of these transceivers and they work well. If you want dedicated flash operation, finding long cords is difficult. It took me four months to find and receive a 9.5m uncoiled flash extension cable ... even though it only cost me $50, it was a serious pain in the took us. A friend turned me on to making them myself, if I need another: - take a Promaster Pentax TTL dedicated flash cord - cut the ends off it - wire a pair of RJ45 female sockets to the ends - buy an appropriate length of quality ethernet cable for your needs He's made several cables this way for both Olympus and Nikon studio flash setups. Very inexpensive to do, the trickiest bit is to find nice sockets and wire them up, but anyone handy with telephone wire type plugs and sockets shouldn't have any difficulty. He's had zero problems with remote flash cables up to 50' long. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
