Thread: Wireless shutter release for threaded shutter buttons?

Thanks Kristen! Most cameras have a self timer already. I'm trying to find a wireless trigger that would allow me to press the shutter button from far away. This plunger self-timer is pretty cool though!

Methinks you are GASing for a gadget! Not sure what all Pocket Wizard does but you can look there maybe. After that I am out of tech ideas though if someone throws me an M.. I will prompt my engineer husband to create something LOL Then again if someone throws me an M I am not stepping away from it!

The old-timey mechanical timer device to effing cool, but I understand my Armando wants. A remote control trigger so he can decide exactly when to release the shutter.

I think you're going to have to go with Bob's suggestion. I've Googled every possible combination of words trying to find something that does that. I can't believe no one makes such a thing. I'd go invent one with $5 in parts and charge $20 and a week later there would be knockoffs from China on eBay for $.99 with free shipping.

Originally Posted by Luke

The old-timey mechanical timer device to effing cool, but I understand my Armando wants. A remote control trigger so he can decide exactly when to release the shutter.

I think you're going to have to go with Bob's suggestion. I've Googled every possible combination of words trying to find something that does that. I can't believe no one makes such a thing. I'd go invent one with $5 in parts and charge $20 and a week later there would be knockoffs from China on eBay for $.99 with free shipping.

Ehhh ... I don't like Bob's suggestion! :(

As for your invention, not necessarily! I'll buy it from you for $20 and keep it a secret!

Or YOU can be the one having some Chinese folks making it for 50 cents there, and then selling it for $5 in the US.

Maybe I should describe what we need to an inventor over there and we can all just have tons of them for cheap and I don't have to lift a finger.

Do you have any engineering know how? I'd love to create something like that and sell it. Except the only thing I've ever created was a Lego formula one car.

Hey that's where I got my start! Lego's RULE! No, unfortunately I don't, but I feel like you should be able to build that with parts from Radio Shack......seriously. My wife is an engineer, but her specialty is civil engineering. If you need to plan how best to direct traffic through a a roundabout, she can help with that. But I'm afraid it's just you and I building this camera doo-dad.

You should see if there's a local camera club in your area. Those groups are always a bunch of cool old retired guys that have more smarts in their little pinky than I have in my whole brain. SOmeone there will build you one.

Husband is an engineer.. wanna toss me a Leica? :D

this is seriously one of those things that a mechanical engineer could do in their sleep. Start a kickstarter, show off your idea on a bunch of camera forums.....especially the kind where threaded shutter releases button operator hang out and wait until the right amount of money flows in. There's obviously a tipping point there somewhere where it makes sense. I don;t know enough about what it would take, how much the parts would cost, etc. But I'd be willing to bet there are at least 1000 people willing to pay $20 for one. Now if you can get it done for $5 or so, it's a no brainer. If it costs $60 to make, then maybe you only have 50 people willing to pay $150 for it.

Someone with knowledge needs to crunch the numbers. If it's $20 at retail, I'll buy 2. If it costs $40, I'd buy one for sure.....much more than that and I'd have to think about it. But it would look sweet hanging off the X100. And the cool part is that there are a LOT of potential customers because it is brand agnostic......and all those film shooter....wow. someone needs to take the ball and run with it.

in the olden days we use to use a bulb release while it is not wireless, you could at least far from as far away as 15 to 2 p ft