A Very Basic Cable Release
April 3rd, 2008 Posted in HackI was messing around with my Holga camera last night and I thought to myself, “Whats the easiest and cheapest way to make a cable release system for my Holga?”
This is what I came up with:
Yeah you have probably already guessed what I’m going to do right?
Position the cable so that when fully extended it holds the shutter button down completely.
And finally tape it securely in place. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how well this holds.
At some stage in the near future I will be making a proper permanent hack, but I thought this was pretty cool while you wait for that!
5 Responses so far
By absolute0 on May 14, 2008
Where did you get that cable?
By Durkin on May 15, 2008
hi there thanks for the comment, the cable was purchased off eBay. Just search “cable release”
Cheers!
By absolute0 on May 15, 2008
Thanks. Did you screw on the shutter thingy?
By Durkin on May 16, 2008
I didn’t no. this is just using tape. I will be making a more permanent hack at some stage in the near future, that involves srewing the release in. this was just something that I thought would work and it did
By absolute0 on May 16, 2008
I gotta try this one of these days, buying just a cable release is a lot cheaper than buying the ones made for Holga