Re: electronic releases

[crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Crowell)]

At 9:36 AM 11/29/95, Mark Poole wrote:
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>     The obvious drawback of trying to get simultaneous images from hitting
>     each button with two separate hands.  Minolta, in it's infinite wisdom
>     (read: greed), had discarded the ol' cable release, and has gone to
>     electronic (read:expensive) release.  I obtained an Infrared Master
>     and two Slaves at an enormous cost.  The nice thing about this rig is
>     that both units go off at once, so I can now include moving people and
>     objects, and (most importantly, hee, hee), I can now be in the
>     picture.  The range is incredible.  I have triggered the things from
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I just read a (very positive) review of a new auto-everything SLR from
Sigma.  The reviewer pointed out that an electronic release was required,
but that Sigma sold a cordless release (for that particular camera) that
was much cheaper than similar gadgets from other manufacturers.  It comes
in two versions, a cheap single-channel version & a more expensive
3-channel version "so as not to fire another camera by mistake".  My
immediate thought was, "How silly!  Of course you'd want to be able to fire
more than one camera!"  :-)

-Jim C.


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