| I bought the Pentax remote, the one which uses IR and can trigger the camera from either its rear or front, within a reasonable distance. It works fine, but has a very distinct disadvantage - if you don't use it within 5 minutes (as I recall) it will no longer work until you go to the camera and reset it. For taking shots while hidden in a blind or something similar, this is totally unacceptable to me.
So, I built myself a wired remote, with several choices of lengths of wire runs to the camera. In addition, this allows me to use two features - one to refocus and the other to trip the shutter. Each has its own push button switch in my homebrew remote. And the 5 minute cutoff is avoided.
Olin McDaniel |