— Warning… Geeky Camara Tech post —
Well I finially made my remote shutter for my Canon XT. Sure, I could have ordered one from China for 99 cents.. but where is the fun in that??
This is super easy to make and includes a shutter button, AF button and Shutter Switch for blub mode. This makes all night photos pretty much shake free (depending on your tripod of course)
Materials -
Stereo Switch (2.5)
Wire
Soldering Iron
Solder
2 Buttons
1 one way switch
Old can or some kind of container
Electrical Tape
The camaras funtions actually work by shorting the ground off the left and right channels. So you can play around with shorting the connections to see which channel does what to the camara. You will soon find out that shorting one triggers the AF and the other triggers the shutter button.
Now just follow this advanced schematics I did to solder your connections together!!
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So thats it. Just make sure only the right connections are touching and you should be in business. The following picture is the one I made, and is actually taking that picture!
Give it a shot.
-Mike