[Noisebridge-discuss] canon camera swap for spacebridge balloon launch?

[Don French]

Unfortunately, the SD400 doesn't have a remote shutter release of any kind.
Not sure what the 3.5 mm socket is but I would not short it if I were you.

-- Don


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:

> Hmm - there's a 3.5mm jack hidden under a flap, along with mini-USB.
> Can I just plug in a mono plug and try shorting the pins together to
> see if it's a trigger jack (as opposed to audio)? Or does it require
> something more complex to trigger it?
>
> m.
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Don French <dcfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have cables to fit virtually every camera make and model that has a
> wired
> > remote. I can also provide the intervalometer that the cables are
> designed
> > for, which can be programmed to do various things like operate only
> during
> > daylight hours, have an initial delay, and to take multiple exposures at
> > every interval (useful for bracketing exposures). At the moment it only
> > works with cameras that have a wired remote.  However, with a minor
> > modification and an inexpensive commercially available cable, it can be
> made
> > to work with most cameras that have IR remotes.
> >
> > -- Don
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Josh Bailey <josh at anarkiwi.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't have a camera. However. If it has a 2.5mm trigger jack, you
> could
> >> build a little dual-555 circuit that just triggers it on a schedule.
> Just
> >> a thought.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
> >>
> >> > I bought a Canon camera off ebay to use on the spacebridge balloon
> >> > launch this Sunday, but it turns out to have a firmware version on it
> >> > that's too recent to work with CHDK (and therefore support time lapse
> >> > shooting). Does anyone have a superfluous Canon (compatible with CHDK
> >> > - list on the right-hand side of http://chdk.wikia.com/) that they'd
> >> > be willing to swap for this SD400?
> >> >
> >> > (I'd ask for a loan, but there's a reasonable chance of never getting
> it
> >> > back :)
> >> >
> >> > m.
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