I am constantly losing cable releases which come unscrewed as I use the camera. I am considering putting lock-tite (the removable version) on the socket, but I thought I would check for other solutions.
I am constantly losing cable releases which come unscrewed as I use the camera. I am considering putting lock-tite (the removable version) on the socket, but I thought I would check for other solutions.
Ed Richards
http://www.epr-art.com
I've been using that since Picker recomended it 20+ years ago. Works like a charm.
Thanks,
Kirk
at age 73:
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
"I am considering putting lock-tite (the removable version)"
isn't that a contradiction?!
steve simmons
Hi again Steve! Nope, there is a version that is reversible. That is, it is not a permanent bond. I can't remember what color it is, blue maybe (to distinguish it from the permanent stuff, which I think is red). The reversible stuff works great for lots of things. I never thought about using it on a cable release though. (Just in case you were not joking.)
Yep, my favorite 15-year-old cable release, one of those big expensive ones with a fat brass plunger that was just hitting its stride, is lying lost among the ruins somewhere outside of New Orleans. Curse those dumb v-shaped threads that don't hold worth a turd!
~cj
Chris,
It has several of mine to keep it company.:-)
Ed Richards
http://www.epr-art.com
Funny, they don't have to fall off of a camera or lens either. My 5 year old really thinks that cable releases are cool, so I gave him one. Last summer, he lost it in Yosemite. Maybe it missed some of its old companions that I left up there, and bailed out of his pocket!
It sounds like I can find a cable release in the places I go to by just looking on the ground! Loctite sounds like a good idea though, I'll have to go back and re-read my Picker newsletters. I must have missed that one.
Damn, now I know I need to start looking down. Which parts of New Orleans? :P
I found someone's marked "159" (Wollensak?) along Glacier Creek in Rocky Mountain NP last summer. It's a cheap one, but I like it.
Keith Pitman
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