|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product details
|
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Fire your Pentax camera remotely with this useful 0.5m long cable release.
Product Description
Pentax Kabelauslöser CS-205
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Pentax accessories are expensive, and this takes the biscuit. The IR remote is £10 cheaper. The only advantage is the lock on this one for really long exposures (over 30 seconds).
5 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
A bit of a flimsy piece of kit, i'd be worried that it would fail on me, it's quite plasticky but appearances can be deceptive maybe it will be ok. Could do with a longer cable (i'm not sure if you can get longer cables if you spend a bit more).
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
32 reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Extendable!
25 Jun 2008
Amazon Verified Purchase
If you don't like the short length of the cable you can extend it by getting an extension cable. This is just a standard stereo cable but it works with the cable release. I bought this one: 12 foot 2.5mm extension cable and it works great. The male end doesn't "snap in" on the camera, but it isn't loose enough to fall out.
I've used the cable release with the extension a couple of times and it works great. I imagine you could probably chain them if you wanted to be really far from the camera, but I haven't tried it.
Overall, a great and useful tool.
I've used the cable release with the extension a couple of times and it works great. I imagine you could probably chain them if you wanted to be really far from the camera, but I haven't tried it.
Overall, a great and useful tool.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Prevent camera shake
11 Jan 2007
Amazon Verified Purchase
The cable release and a tripod make it possible for me to tak pictures of
wildlife at 100 to 130 yds. with a 75-300mm telephoto zoom lense without camera shake.
wildlife at 100 to 130 yds. with a 75-300mm telephoto zoom lense without camera shake.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
You'll need one of these
2 Jan 2008
Amazon Verified Purchase
Unfortunately modern cameras don't take the old threaded plunger type of cable release. So, unless you are able to make one, you'll need to shell out for a proprietary electrical model - this is my second Pentax model, as the other one I have only works with film cameras.
That complaining aside: you'll need a cable release or remote for those long shutter speed shots - night time, fireworks, even portraits and so on. You could get by if you set the camera self timer to 3seconds delay, that helps the vibration die down, but that won't work if you want to use the B speed. Using a cable release and a good tripod makes a big difference in picture quality.
For the other traditional use of a remote release - self portraits - the length of the cable is a bit short. Pentax does sell a wireless remote that's useful for that purpose - as well as the tripod slow shutter speed need - but the wireless uses a tiny battery.
That complaining aside: you'll need a cable release or remote for those long shutter speed shots - night time, fireworks, even portraits and so on. You could get by if you set the camera self timer to 3seconds delay, that helps the vibration die down, but that won't work if you want to use the B speed. Using a cable release and a good tripod makes a big difference in picture quality.
For the other traditional use of a remote release - self portraits - the length of the cable is a bit short. Pentax does sell a wireless remote that's useful for that purpose - as well as the tripod slow shutter speed need - but the wireless uses a tiny battery.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
|
