Don would a spring out of a cheap cigarette lighter do the trick.

Good plot Christine.

Just been out to the workshop and taken one to bits without setting fire to anything :D but it is too strong. As it is only for returning the plunger it needs to be really weak, to not add to the load when you press the cable release. That way you do not loose that touch on the shutter that a cable release has.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Don

I got the paint today and decided that if I was going to do it anytime, now was the time.

I succeeded in reducing the weight by milling out a further 40grams from the base. Thickness of the milled sections is now 1.5mm.
Total weight now 310 grams + paint. :D

Don

Finding a way of shortening the capsule has been driving me nuts. So this morning was another serious rummage session through drawers in the search for a spring or something I could get one from. I found an old Parker ballpen with a bent clip, so I sawed the top off to retrieve the spring from the clicker. This allowed me to re-make the capsule with 7mm less overhang.

The Mk2 is now complete. Weight is now under 300 grams.

This afternoon I cancelled my order for MC30 and used the cash saving to replace my 25 year old monopod. :D

Don

Well after a few months of amateur weekend use my Nikon MC30 has almost fallen to pieces. The rubber round the cable started splitting and now the cable has split, despite being wrapped in masking tape. I'll complain to Nikon, or Grays, though I do not expect any comeback. For £60 I expect more than 2 months use.

This morning I rceived a Chinese copy made by Jianisi costing £10 + P&P and it certainly looks as well made as the Nikon one. And it is a push fit rather than the incredibly fiddly screw fit of the Nikon.

Why pay all that much money for a Nikon product, or go to the trouble of making one yourself when you can buy a very good alternative one for £9.97 inc P/P & ins. I've got one, they're very good and work a treat!

Here's the web link.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Remote-Cord-to...QQcmdZViewItem

You might have to wait up to 10 days for delivery, but it's worth the wait.

nirofo.

Because the assumption is that the Nikon product is better made than a Chinese one. It isn't. I also bought my Chinese MC30 from ebay but the seller was UK based so it arrived after two days. Oddly enough, the day I received it, I found that he was no longer registered as an ebay seller.

I can understand Don's approach. His uses standard cable releases which can be bought anywhere and don't cost much to replace if he loses/destroys one.

I have just purchased the adidt version for my 30D, very well made. £11 for the 3 metre length. He does them in diferent lengths or sells extensions.
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1...sassZwenatrado. this one is germany based only took two days.

Sorry to hear of your problems Leif.

I just cannot understand why Nikon never released a 10 pin version of the MR-3. See attached image. They cannot keep up with demand for MC-30 so not a lot of financial benefit in not releasing a 10 pin version.

Don

I agree. I used to have an MR-3 and as I understand it all that the MC-30 does is make and break a connection between two pins. The MR-3 does the same. I suppose someone with your engineering skills could make an equivalent.