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

[Joel Jaeggli]

Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
> Hmm - there's a 3.5mm jack hidden under a flap, along with mini-USB.

That's video out.

> 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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