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jhinkey wrote:
Oliver -
My only qualm with this is having to take it off for tripod work and then put it back on again. Does taking it off and on once a month or so ruin the fit? I.e., does it fit less snugly each time you take it off?
Also, I don't want to invest in and have to carry around yet another remote release - hence my idea to use the splitter to mount the foolography bluetooth receiver to (permanently) and use the 2nd 10 pin to attach my remote to when needed. I may even cut and shorten the splitter cable if needed.
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Well, actually you don't ever need to take it off. The Unleashed has a 2.5mm jack socket built in, which is compatible with Canon Remote releases (or of course any third party remote release designed for Canons Digital Rebel series DSLRs).
These happen to be the cheapest Remote releases on the market, and cost only a fraction of what the splitter cable or the MC-21 would cost you.
But even if you take it off frequently, it will stay tight. The D300 we use to test all the devices on, and my personal Unleashed which I use with this camera, still fit very tightly, having plugged and unplugged Unleasheds several thousand times. You do not need to worry about unplugging it once a month.
jhinkey wrote:
I've even looked at using the MC-21 extension cable from Nikon (shortened accordingly) to put your bluetooth device up on the strap - though it may not have the wires to transfer the data along (it may just be wired for remote actuation - I can't tell)
The MC-21 is fully wired - I used it during development. But I must say that your idea would annull many of the great advantages of our tiny Unleashed. The main one being that it's completely wireless - and you want to add a wire, permanently...
jhinkey wrote:
I would think it would be a great idea to have a version of your bluetooth receiver that securely mounted on the camera strap (it's so small this would not be a problem) and have a wire that goes to the body that plugs into the 10 pin port and still allows in some way the attachment of the MC-36 remote 10 pin connector - either at the bluetooth receiver (like the Nikon MC-35 GPS cable) or at the point where it connects to the body (another female 10 pin connector on the back of the male 10 pin connector that only is useful for the remote release (no data).
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Well, like I said, I see too many advantages in our device being so small and wireless, so I'm not too fond of that Idea, but I think that your main reason for the idea is something we also thought about: still being able to remotely release the camera, even when the Unleashed is plugged in. The 10-pin socket is not easy to get a hold of, and it's so big, we would have had to make the device twice as big, just to fit it in. So we went for the next best solution, and used the most common plug for remote releases: a 2.5mm jack socket, as found in many Canon compatible remotes.
you will not lose any functionality over the MC-35. If you're up for a little bit of DIY, you can even cut the cord of the MC-35, and purchase a 2.5mm stero jack, and solder it onto the cord, to make it compatible with the Unleashed. I can give you exact directions for this if you want.
On the Unleashed D90 and Dx000 (for the D90 or D3100/D5000/D5100/D7000), we added a socket compatible with the original Nikon MC-DC2 remote release... This was much easier to realize than the round 10-pin port.
Oliver
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