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The Extinct Cable Release Socket
My 8008s uses a switch rather than a mechanical cable release but guess
what? Nikon makes a cable release adapter that screws into the same port so I can use a mechanical cable release. The little windup self timers are still available from Prontor and now cost more than some new cameras--about $150 last time I looked. The thing I really miss? Mirror lockup. Can't think of an electronic work around for that one. -- darkroommike ---------- "Seamor" wrote in message ... I have a question that no one seems to ask. I guess that's because today's photographers don't even know that there was such a thing. However, this question will greatly interest us old timers, I'm sure. What ever happened to cable release sockets on cameras? I'm all for eliminating useless things and modernizing others, but the cable release was one of the most useful things on a camera. If your hands are little unsteady, as mine are, it was always easier for me to steady the camera by squeezing the cable release than it was to press the shutter. If the camera you preferred did not have a self-timer, Kodak made a handy little gadget that you hooked onto the end of your cable release. You wound it up and it gave you about ten seconds before it would push the cable release and trip the shutter. If you were using your camera on a tripod, it was so much easier, and I think more professional, to push the cable release than to manually push the shutter release, assuring yourself of absolutely no camera movement. I guess the elimination of the very convenient cable release socket was someone's convoluted idea of progress. I can only hope that that kind of progress doesn't kill us all some day soon. |
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The Extinct Cable Release Socket
Not only that but a lot of today's cameras are pretty well sealed and the
idea was to eliminate a big intrusive HOLE in the camera's top plate. -- darkroommike ---------- "Randy Stewart" wrote in message ... "Seamor" wrote in message ... I have a question that no one seems to ask. I guess that's because today's photographers don't even know that there was such a thing. However, this question will greatly interest us old timers, I'm sure. What ever happened to cable release sockets on cameras? I think we all know what happened. As electric releases took over designs, the mechanical cable release, which was and is easy to design into and electruc system, was eliminated as being either not stylish or a penny saved. I first ran into this issue in 1976 when I added a MD-11 power drive to a nikon FM - no mechanical release on the drive. I lost all direct cable release when I later moved to a nikon 8008S. Nikon's provides electrical equivalents of a cable release. It also sells a more traditionally styled mechanical release switch whihc plugs into an accessory electrical release socket and which will take a cable relase as well, thereby coming "full circle" if you want to put out for the accessory switch. |
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The Extinct Cable Release Socket
Cable release sockets are still there so is the morror lockup function ....
just not on the lower priced cameras. Ted Harris Resource Strategy Henniker, New Hampshire |
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