Remote Shutters???

Was looking at ebay yesterday and came upon an auction for a remote shutter for my cam. Hmmmm I am curious, who here uses one, and how long is the cord for it? The cord on this one is only 2 feet Not enuff to even grab my cup of coffee lol

I have a cable remote for my cam - it has a reach of about 60 cm (roughly 2 feet). For my purposes it is enough, but if I ever need something with more range I can always buy a IR remote.

You might be able to cobble together a longer one when using the old mechanical remotes that press on the shutter button like your thumb would instead of using a side port. But that is probably going to be a very flimsy construction that won't work for many exposures before you need to repair it. But then again maybe you can find an old, mechanical remote with a longer range in the first place...

I have a shutter release cable for my D70s. I typically only use it for exposures greater than 30s, lightning photography, or if I'm doing a sequence of timed exposures. For single exposures that require long exposures, I just set the timer to two seconds and hit the shutter button. That way the shake caused by pressing the shutter release is not recorded in the image and I don't have to dig out my cable release. I would consider the remote cable an indispensable piece of equipment in my photo bag. It is only about two feet long, like the one you are looking at.

I've had several people rave to me about the IR remotes. It would be less messy and cluttered in my camera bag if I were able to get rid of the long wire for the shutter release cable, but I'm wondering how exposures longer than 30s would work... probably wouldn't.

This post has been edited by Rhavethstine on October 01, 2006 09:14 am

I'm not sure how exposures over 30 sec.s with an IR remote would work on a D70, but the IR remote for the 350D works be pressing the shutter button once to open the shutter and then pressing it again to close it again.

hehe, don't know much on the subject, but good luck...

I have a cable release for my K1000 and I find it very useful for all kinds of photography. Like the one you saw on E-bay mine is only about 2 ft. long. But I don't really need one too long since I don't do self-portraits. That is really the only time I can see someone needing one that is longer than 2 ft.

Mainly I use my cable for low-light photography so I don't jar the camera... it definitely helps to reduce any possible blur there. In fact, I would never shoot in low-light situations without my remote shutter release and of course a tripod.

If you don't have one already and you see one for a decent price then you should definitely make the investment... it will be worth it.

Hope this nice long comment could be of some help to ya John. lol

I myself bought one about two months ago and have started to use it recently, I don't know if it will improve my pictures any (more than likely will) however it was cheap and is a metre long so it does the job nicely

Use it all the time, with Mirror Lockup. Couldn't doo half my landscapes without one