Re: The Extinct Cable Release Socket

My 8008s uses a switch rather than a mechanical cable release but guess
what?  Nikon makes a cable release adapter that screws into the same port so
I can use a mechanical cable release.  The little windup self timers are
still available from Prontor and now cost more than some new cameras--about
$150 last time I looked.

The thing I really miss?  Mirror lockup.  Can't think of an electronic work
around for that one.

--
darkroommike

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"Seamor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I have a question that no one seems to ask.  I guess that's because
today's
> photographers don't even know that there was such a thing.
> However, this question will greatly interest us old timers, I'm sure.
What
> ever happened to cable release sockets on cameras?
>
>  I'm all for eliminating useless things and modernizing others, but the
> cable release was one of the most useful things on a camera.  If your
hands
> are little unsteady, as mine are, it was always easier for me to steady
the
> camera by squeezing the cable release than it was to press the shutter.
If
> the camera you preferred did not have a self-timer, Kodak made a handy
> little gadget that you hooked onto the end of your cable release.  You
wound
> it up and it gave you about ten seconds before it would push the cable
> release and trip the shutter.  If you were using your camera on a tripod,
it
> was so much easier, and I think more professional, to push the cable
release
> than to manually push the shutter release, assuring yourself of absolutely
> no camera movement.
>
> I guess the elimination of the very convenient cable release socket was
> someone's convoluted idea of progress.  I can only hope that that kind of
> progress doesn't kill us all some day soon.
>
>