Remote control

[Johannes Czernin]

Loren,

I didn't know about the UK, I thought it's only the US and Canada that don't allow you to import and/or use it.

In fact the man who developed, and sells, that unit has unwillingly maneuvered himself into an unfortunate position. All his electronic tricks are in what he calls the "receiver" part of the system. This is the little black box with a few buttons on it that attaches via cable to the camera's ACC port and allows you to execute all functions "remotely", with the distance from the camera being limited by the length of the cable.

For the true "remote", i.e. wireless, setup he chose one of those commercially available little remote transmitters that are usually sold for garage door openers, light switches and similar things. This is a simple electronic device manufactured by a large East Asian company who happen to have a European subsidiary located in Germany and this is where Joern buys it from. Unfortunately however, for reasons unknown to me, this company has never bothered to accquire certification in a number of countries, amongst them the US (where they would have to deal with the FCC) and, as I have learned from you, the UK.

Joern himself, in his position as a one man enterprise, would never be able to afford these certification procedures and so he has decided to go ahead and develop a new version of his system where the radio link is replaced by an Infrared light one. As soon as he gets this working I'm sure he will lose no time announcing the availability on his Web site.

Regards,

Johannes

I emailed this group and recieved a reply to the effect that this
product is not approved for use in the United States and Great
Britain because of some radio frequency issue. I don't know the
details, maybe it will make traffic signals go wacko! God only
knows.

Loren Roque

 

[Evil Eggplant]

I did make a wireless, light or sound activated shutter release for my drebel. Granted, this is easier with the dreb, as Canon chose not to use a propriatary like Sony did.

Anyone who has made a successful shutter remote for the 828
(wireless) please let me know if you'd be willing to make another,
and the cost for the project.

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[Luke Church]

These kind of things are always a pain, but ultimately they are there for a good reason.

I don't know quite which bit of the system he's having problems with but if it's only the radio frequency transmitters I would have thought that it would be possible to find another transmitter reciever module and adapt if for that. There are plenty of them floating around so I wouldn't have thought it would be that hard to find one that was FCC approved and modify the interfaces, however this said I've never been involved in digital comms over radioy things before so I'm not really in a position to comment.

Cheers,

Luke

I didn't know about the UK, I thought it's only the US and Canada
that don't allow you to import and/or use it.

In fact the man who developed, and sells, that unit has unwillingly
maneuvered himself into an unfortunate position. All his electronic
tricks are in what he calls the "receiver" part of the system. This
is the little black box with a few buttons on it that attaches via
cable to the camera's ACC port and allows you to execute all
functions "remotely", with the distance from the camera being
limited by the length of the cable.

For the true "remote", i.e. wireless, setup he chose one of those
commercially available little remote transmitters that are usually
sold for garage door openers, light switches and similar things.
This is a simple electronic device manufactured by a large East
Asian company who happen to have a European subsidiary located in
Germany and this is where Joern buys it from. Unfortunately
however, for reasons unknown to me, this company has never bothered
to accquire certification in a number of countries, amongst them
the US (where they would have to deal with the FCC) and, as I have
learned from you, the UK.

Joern himself, in his position as a one man enterprise, would never
be able to afford these certification procedures and so he has
decided to go ahead and develop a new version of his system where
the radio link is replaced by an Infrared light one. As soon as he
gets this working I'm sure he will lose no time announcing the
availability on his Web site.

Regards,

Johannes

I emailed this group and recieved a reply to the effect that this
product is not approved for use in the United States and Great
Britain because of some radio frequency issue. I don't know the
details, maybe it will make traffic signals go wacko! God only
knows.

Loren Roque

 

[Luke Church]

Hi Pupator,

I have an 828, so the functionality of any remote would be pretty
limited.

Ok, I mean there are clever things one can do even with the F828, time lapse and computer controlled photography being the two that interest me....

I'd just be looking for something that could release the
shutter. The further the better as far as range, but I'd hope for
at least 15 feet. I don't care if it's IR or RF.

OK, that's all fine. 4m is easely doable over IR, of course assuming reasonable line of sight, it should be possible to go beyond this using low power laser diodes but the contol encoding process is a little more manky.

I don't have a device at the moment (I've only just acquired a remote), however I may be looking into building one. I'll have to look at the details that I've been given links to with all the timing stuff to see whether it is worth my while or not, there certainly seems to be insufficent commercial demand to make it something to do for profit.

I'm going to be quite busy for the forseable future (start new job in a couple of weeks) and so I wouldn't expect to see anything remotely soon, however I'll let you know how I get on if anything comes up, but I wouldn't hold your breath :-(

If I see anything commerical I'll get back to you as well...

Sorry i can't be more commital at this point,

Cheers,

Luke

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[lorenroque2]

I don't know quite which bit of the system he's having problems
with but if it's only the radio frequency transmitters I would have
thought that it would be possible to find another transmitter
reciever module and adapt if for that. There are plenty of them
floating around so I wouldn't have thought it would be that hard to
find one that was FCC approved and modify the interfaces, however
this said I've never been involved in digital comms over radioy
things before so I'm not really in a position to comment.

Cheers,

Luke

I didn't know about the UK, I thought it's only the US and Canada
that don't allow you to import and/or use it.

In fact the man who developed, and sells, that unit has unwillingly
maneuvered himself into an unfortunate position. All his electronic
tricks are in what he calls the "receiver" part of the system. This
is the little black box with a few buttons on it that attaches via
cable to the camera's ACC port and allows you to execute all
functions "remotely", with the distance from the camera being
limited by the length of the cable.

For the true "remote", i.e. wireless, setup he chose one of those
commercially available little remote transmitters that are usually
sold for garage door openers, light switches and similar things.
This is a simple electronic device manufactured by a large East
Asian company who happen to have a European subsidiary located in
Germany and this is where Joern buys it from. Unfortunately
however, for reasons unknown to me, this company has never bothered
to accquire certification in a number of countries, amongst them
the US (where they would have to deal with the FCC) and, as I have
learned from you, the UK.

Joern himself, in his position as a one man enterprise, would never
be able to afford these certification procedures and so he has
decided to go ahead and develop a new version of his system where
the radio link is replaced by an Infrared light one. As soon as he
gets this working I'm sure he will lose no time announcing the
availability on his Web site.

Regards,

Johannes

I emailed this group and recieved a reply to the effect that this
product is not approved for use in the United States and Great
Britain because of some radio frequency issue. I don't know the
details, maybe it will make traffic signals go wacko! God only
knows.

Loren Roque

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Just when you think you have something that will make your life easier, you find out it has caused a problem. I would love to have this wireless unit, but it has some deleterious effect. Look at cellular telephones....they make our lives easier, right. Well some aspect of cellular technology has enabled our enemies the means to detect American "stealth" aircraft.

Loren Roque