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 04/12/2007 02:35:00 AM · #1
I made this remote for my camera for fun and also I didn't want to pay so much for a button with a short cord.

04/12/2007 02:42:23 AM · #2
I used this. But it only worked ONCE and I had to be REAL STEADY.

If I was going to make one, it would look like this.

:P

Yours looks cool though, ssodell. So what was your total bill at Radio Shack?
 04/12/2007 03:07:48 AM · #3
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
So what was your total bill at Radio Shack?


I had the little Sharper Image cooling fan which is the blue casing part which came with one of those neck cooling devices. I used a headphone cord. So I bought two Normally open push buttons and an 8mm (I think) plug, whatever the size that fits the remote hole in the camera. I think it was @ 12.00 Dollars.

Message edited by author 2007-04-12 03:08:14.
 04/12/2007 03:45:42 AM · #4
Now you need to make yourself one of those neck cooling devices. :)
 04/12/2007 03:47:41 AM · #5
I don't have a photo of it, but I took a ping pong ball, notched it out with my dremel tool to make a diffuser for my onboard flash.
 04/12/2007 03:56:51 AM · #6
Originally posted by taterbug:
I don't have a photo of it, but I took a ping pong ball, notched it out with my dremel tool to make a diffuser for my onboard flash.

Well, McGuyver, it would be hard to get a photo of it without a 180° flexible lens! :P
 04/12/2007 04:13:11 AM · #7
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by taterbug:
I don't have a photo of it, but I took a ping pong ball, notched it out with my dremel tool to make a diffuser for my onboard flash.

Well, McGuyver, it would be hard to get a photo of it without a 180° flexible lens! :P


Apparently, nowadays, there are these new inventions. I think that they're called "morrirs' or something like that. I don't know much about them at the moment. It seems like one of these new-fangled things might help in this situation.
 04/12/2007 05:37:41 AM · #8
I built a circuit that allows me to safely sync an old flash that has a trigger voltage of close to 300V with my D200. I don't have a picture of it, but it doesn't look like much, a little black box with a connector on each end.
 04/12/2007 05:41:26 AM · #9
I once scotch taped a lego soccer back to my shutter to hold down the shutter. The real remote was in the mail, and surprisingly, the tape worked pretty well.
04/12/2007 06:12:40 AM · #10
Built myself a laser trigger that works somewhat well. It's not finished, so it just looks like a tangle of wires... kinda lost interest... and moved... and school...

But that's no excuse... ;)
 04/12/2007 03:06:44 PM · #11
I also made another a while ago using a tube that originally contained a coil of solder. Two Normally open push buttons and a headphones cord. I use my pinky finger and thumb to operate it. Also had to downsize the connector on the end as you can see.



I also built one out of a 35mm film container for my sister. Don't have a pic of that one.

Message edited by author 2007-04-12 15:07:25.
 04/12/2007 05:56:02 PM · #12
Originally posted by taterbug:
I don't have a photo of it, but I took a ping pong ball, notched it out with my dremel tool to make a diffuser for my onboard flash.


Look I made a diffuser out of a little bottle.



04/12/2007 06:26:58 PM · #13
My wife and I have made two remotes. They actually work on voice command. All I have to do is arrange my setup and set the focus. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command. It is quite the setup. Not cheap though, but fairly reliable.
My shutter remotes

Message edited by author 2007-04-12 18:31:01.
 04/12/2007 06:39:05 PM · #14
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
My wife and I have made two remotes. They actually work on voice command. All I have to do is arrange my setup and set the focus. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command. It is quite the setup. Not cheap though, but fairly reliable.
My shutter remotes

nice! =-)
 04/12/2007 07:07:09 PM · #15
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
They actually work on voice command. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command.
My shutter remotes

Now this is a bit of a stretch don't ya think? I remember it going more like:
"Now Aidan - hit it - c'mon hit it buddy - yeah that - hit it - pleeeeease - I'll give ya a lollypop!"
 04/12/2007 07:11:19 PM · #16
Originally posted by aimeethetoo:
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
They actually work on voice command. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command.
My shutter remotes

Now this is a bit of a stretch don't ya think? I remember it going more like:
"Now Aidan - hit it - c'mon hit it buddy - yeah that - hit it - pleeeeease - I'll give ya a lollypop!"

so you have some reliability issues. :P
 04/12/2007 07:30:40 PM · #17
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
My wife and I have made two remotes. They actually work on voice command. All I have to do is arrange my setup and set the focus. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command. It is quite the setup. Not cheap though, but fairly reliable.
My shutter remotes


Making these remotes is the best part too. It may take some practice over months or years but usually when you least expect it BAM a remote/lawnmower/dishwasher/slave is born.

I haven't made any myself (though I keep my skills honed just in case) although I did get 2 second hand remotes someone else made.

Message edited by author 2007-04-12 20:49:42.
 04/12/2007 08:35:28 PM · #18
made this lightsphere a while ago worked well very also but I now have the gary fong one, lol friends use to ask me whats with tupperware on my flash




04/12/2007 08:45:53 PM · #19
Originally posted by digitalpins:
I now have the gary fong one, lol friends use to ask me whats with tupperware on my flash

I have the Gary Fong one and friends still ask me that!
 04/12/2007 08:47:34 PM · #20
Originally posted by aimeethetoo:
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
They actually work on voice command. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command.
My shutter remotes

Now this is a bit of a stretch don't ya think? I remember it going more like:
"Now Aidan - hit it - c'mon hit it buddy - yeah that - hit it - pleeeeease - I'll give ya a lollypop!"


Sounds like you have a short somewhere, that might be your problem. :P
 04/12/2007 09:32:02 PM · #21
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I used this. But it only worked ONCE and I had to be REAL STEADY.

If I was going to make one, it would look like this.

:P

Yours looks cool though, ssodell. So what was your total bill at Radio Shack?


You gave me a good idea :)

I wanna make this lol: Gun trigger thingy
 04/12/2007 09:40:48 PM · #22
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
My wife and I have made two remotes. They actually work on voice command. All I have to do is arrange my setup and set the focus. When I am ready to shoot all I have to do is say "Now" and my remotes will go off as many times as I command. It is quite the setup. Not cheap though, but fairly reliable.
My shutter remotes


That was a great set up to your pictures link of the kids. I was really thinking you had some kind of technical voice dial type sensor. Then I laughed pretty good, Thanks.
 04/12/2007 09:52:10 PM · #23

We launched a video camera (inside a pumpkin) with our home made melon musket one time. It didn't survive the launch, as the recorder stopped when we triggered the musket. We had to rewind the tape into another cartrige by hand when we picked up the pieces down range. It was a failure, but it went over 1000 ft, so does that count as a remote?
Good laugh Kw. : )

Message edited by author 2007-04-12 21:54:03.
 04/12/2007 11:08:43 PM · #24
Originally posted by kawana:

You gave me a good idea :)

I wanna make this lol: Gun trigger thingy


and just think of the possible pictures WITH the remote SHOWING!! :P

Nice kawana!!!
 04/12/2007 11:56:34 PM · #25
Originally posted by ssodell:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
So what was your total bill at Radio Shack?


I had the little Sharper Image cooling fan which is the blue casing part which came with one of those neck cooling devices. I used a headphone cord. So I bought two Normally open push buttons and an 8mm (I think) plug, whatever the size that fits the remote hole in the camera. I think it was @ 12.00 Dollars.


So no circuits, no resistors, no power? Just a switch and two wires? Does it matter which wire goes to which connector on the putton?
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