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Making a home made cable-release for the Digilux 3 Or "how to hook your Digilux to a external control" The rest of my
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I frequently use my cameras with either a motioncontrol or a timing device - either of these requires a cable to connect the camera to the device, so far my cameras have simply the open circuit to be closed, however when I plugged the Leica Digilux into the same system nothing happed. After breaking
open the original cable release I learned why, the release have 3
states, defined by resistance in the cable, Having mesured this I soudered together a set of resistors and managed to fit them inside the connector plug on the control device. It works. there is no need for the 5k but the 40k standby and the 2k seems to be required. See the diagram
above for the basic setup. you can easily do this with components
from RadioShack - note that the mini-jack is of the 4 terminal type,
the two inner rings are the shutter release. (the two front rings
are for video out) Naturally you can also easily make a home made cable release with this setup and a simple switch. |
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Leica users forum - digital - great place for all information about the D3 Post with links to reviews of the Leica D3 - Leica users forum. Olympus 4:3 system website - all pieces compatible with 4:3 will work on your Leica Digilux 3 Thoughts about the cousin the L1 by Andrzej Wrotniak, I have beena big fan of his since we started comunicating in the early days of the Olympus E-10 - He give you a good idea what this camera is all about. Lens Adaptors - Stephen at Camera Quest sell very nice and clean adaptors for most major camera brand lenses, I purchased the one for Nikon and it works flawlessly. Popular Photography - Review of the Panasonic L1 cousin of the D3 Camera labs - Another L1 review |