Remote Shooting ?

Muineach

Hi all,
Well I have been using the remote shooting option on my Canon 350 for a while now and it works well, I've also "made" one of the remote triggers (if anyone wants plans etc just ask here, very easy to do, cost 8e in maplins and you can keep extending it with headphone cable) as well and it works perfectly, using either of these with either a stereo jack extender or a usb extender I can be up to 20 feet from the camera itself, watching what's going on and triggering when I want to.

Last night I set it up in my back garden, I was convinced a fox was coming in, so I had to set up my camera on a tripod with a usb cable running to my laptop, and set the camera up for night shooting (ISO 1600 shutter 1.5 seconds). I was looking for more confirmation than a nice photo.

Now the PC (Canon software) has a timer delay, so you can take a picture every 5-X seconds apart for 400 shots (handier than sitting for 4 hours to see that there wasnt any fox).

Is there any way of doing this without a laptop ? I've seen people with "triggers" that go off on sound/lasers etc. but they're fairly complicated to make and to buy I think there around $100 in the US.

So is there a way of getting the camera to trigger every X seconds until it fills up the memory ? or do something similar without a laptop (outside, night, wild beasts )to trigger it ?

Probably not just curious

Heres the pic, taken around 11pm, no lighting anywhere (flash might have put him off), it's not a great photo, just wanted to confirm/deny his existence. He hung around eating the leftover chicken for 20 minutes, it was spicy and he kept going for water

Only thing done in PS was a "auto" on raw.

daedalus2097

You could make a simple circuit to trigger a home-made remote roughly every x seconds. An astable oscillator and a transistor/relay output will do the trick. You're probably talking €20 for parts, little box for it etc...

Muineach

yea, they were the plans I found, my electronic experience is limited to soldering switch's & cables :P with a soldering iron my brothers used back in 1989 and the solder's from back then as well