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Hi, I've no experience with the unit you posted, but I have just got one of these for myself - it has only just been launched in the UK, no idea if they are available elsewhere yet I'm afraid:
http://www.intro2020.co.uk/pages/seculine3.htm
Very happy with it too. Build quality was a bit suss but a dab of super glue to keep it together properly and all is fine now.
I've not yet had the opportunity to test the full 100m range!
http://www.intro2020.co.uk/pages/seculine3.htm
Very happy with it too. Build quality was a bit suss but a dab of super glue to keep it together properly and all is fine now.
I've not yet had the opportunity to test the full 100m range!
Thanks! It looked better than the one from my local store, and at a quarter of the price, so I just ordered it! Thanks again!
Oh I'm quite aware of pocketwizards, but I can't afford that much right now as a student. I'm holding off on those until I get my Alien Bees
IR remotes don't always fire reliably, which is why I bought an MC-30 to use with my D700. I understand the desire for more range, though. It was handy, on rare occasions, to be able to fire my D70 from several feet away.
Back when I was shooting film, I had this nifty device called either a "Gopher" or a "Hedgehog". It screwed onto the shutter with the typical needle plunger doo-dad, but also had about 20 feet of thin rubber tubing and a bulb at the other end - you'd squeeze the bulb, and the blast of air through the tubing would drive the plunger. It worked really well, and cost something like 5 or 10 bucks.
Back when I was shooting film, I had this nifty device called either a "Gopher" or a "Hedgehog". It screwed onto the shutter with the typical needle plunger doo-dad, but also had about 20 feet of thin rubber tubing and a bulb at the other end - you'd squeeze the bulb, and the blast of air through the tubing would drive the plunger. It worked really well, and cost something like 5 or 10 bucks.
IR remotes don't always fire reliably, which is why I bought an MC-30 to use with my D700. I understand the desire for more range, though. It was handy, on rare occasions, to be able to fire my D70 from several feet away.
Back when I was shooting film, I had this nifty device called either a "Gopher" or a "Hedgehog". It screwed onto the shutter with the typical needle plunger doo-dad, but also had about 20 feet of thin rubber tubing and a bulb at the other end - you'd squeeze the bulb, and the blast of air through the tubing would drive the plunger. It worked really well, and cost something like 5 or 10 bucks.
Yeah the remote I had has a built-in cable release as well.
There is an extension cable available for the MC-30 which is 3m for $110
And those "Gophers" were fantastic, but they took it off cameras after the D100. Unfortunate? very.
I got one on eBay that works with the infrared on my XSi, and it cost me only 99 cents. Yes, cents...as in under one dollar...and that was the new, buy-it-now price (not an auction for a used item). I thought it would probably be a piece of junk that couldn't possibly work, but for a buck I'd take the chance. Well, the dang thing actually works! What's more, it also works with my husband's Pentax (it has a bunch of buttons on it, and you press the one for the brand of camera you're aiming at).
I'll just note that the Phottix model mentioned above is RF and therefore doesn't suffer the line of sight or range limitations of IR models.
Precisely :]
Thanks again for the link!
IT would have come in handy for the pictures I was taking tonight, but oh well, I made due. Definitely beats paying like $200 for a pocketwizard setup!