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Being too stingy (well...say "poor") to buy one, I just built my own remote control. Till now I was only able to test it here at home with a Pentax K10D and a K100D but it should work on almost every camera with a 2,5"-remote-connection.

Remote Control

Materials: 2 Buttons, 1 Switch, one 2,5" plug, an old stereo-cable and a casing of any kind.

Costs: 6 - 8 Euro (depends on what items you already own...most expensive one was the casing with 3 Euro)

Time afford: I required about 1 hour. Installing the buttons/switch was a bit difficult because the casing consists of two parts so you might be faster if you use a different one.

 

 

Howto?

Unfourtunately the idea of posting this came to me just after mounting the case, so there's no step-by-step description...but cabling is really easy.

There are 3 seperate wires in the stereo-cable: a red one, a white one and an uncoated one (the ground connection). The ground connection has to be soldered to one connector of each button and the switch. As there are only two connectors on each button/switch you are free to chose which one you take but be sure that you connect the ground connection to every button and the switch (you may split the wire into 3 pieces to achieve that). Now the other two wires (the white and the red one) need to be soldered to the 2 remaining buttons. Try out which one is for focussing and which one triggers the shutter. If you want to use Bulb you also have to solder the "shutter-wire" to the second connector of the switch.

Ground, white and red wire have to be attached to the 2,5" plug at the other end of the cable, too of course! :)

Anyway, here's a quick drawing:

remote

Ask me for questions. Enjoy and take care!

dan.