EOS A2 shutter release

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Does anyone have any suggestion as to an alternative to purchasing the Canon trigger release that plugs into the side of the camera. I read in a recent issue of Photo magazine that you can build this gadget to release the shutter. Has anyone tried it yet on an EOS? And will touching the two contacts together in this port just simply trigger the shutter?

-- David Yip (davyip@pathcom.com), April 29, 1999

Answers

The "T3" socket on your EOS A2 has three points to connect: Your biggest problem will be to obtain a "T3" plug. They are available only by "canabalizing" T3 accessories... you might as well just pay the $35 and buy an RS-60T3 remote switch.

You can easily build a remote switch for the Elan II, Rebel X and Rebel G, but they use a much simpler 2.5mm coaxial plug (stereo headphone style).

-Dave

-- Dave Herzstein (dherzstein@juno.com), April 30, 1999.


Dave's right. The circuit is simple, but you're never going to find a T3 plug, so you might was well buy the whole thing from Canon. It's not all that expensive anyway.

-- Bob Atkins (bobatkins@hotmail.com), May 01, 1999.

Bob's right about Dave being right. The romote is well worth the price and a gadet that will not pay any great reward by making one at home. Also, the remote switch very nicely reproduces the two-step shutter release and has that lovely bulb lock. Buy it and then get back to worrying about composition and color temperature of street lamps--the important stuff.

-- Chris Gillis (cagillis@concentric.net), May 03, 1999.

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