flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

Thank you, Ben!

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Thanks for reading the post! I hope it was useful.

Ben

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

I tossed mine over 50 yrs ago

RonDavis Loc: Chicago, IL

Good Idea.....from another (action) FujiFilm shooter. I bought a set one, but never found them useful. I posted a UHH user survey about soft release buttons about two months ago....but the issue of begin caught on something was never mentioned. There were a few comments about wobble and tightness. Those that use them mentioned comfort more often than anything else.
Now here's a question for you: How long did you use them, and do you miss them now?

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

I have used some pretty unwieldy rigs in my days with all kidsof protuberances hanging off them or mounded on them- radios synch transmitters, large flash heads, cables attached to a shoulder-carried power pack, brackets, grips and a few soft shutter release accessories. I never hand any of them get caught on anything, even in rushed, inconvenient and on-the-run shootg situations. I just teather the wires with zip ties and protect the camera from impacts and scraping against things. I have never damaged a camera that way- maybe it's just dumb luck and now that I opened my big mouth, perhaps something bad, as described by the OP, will happen!

Of course, nowadays, the threaded shutter release is rare or not a thing of the past, With modern digital cameras, there are so many ways to trigger the shutter faultlessly without vibration, the shift of the camera, or difficulty. There are all kinds of electronic cables that can be rigged to a grip and other alternative buttons in battery grips that can be assigned to the shutter release functions.

The attached image is one of my typical rigs. I have also managed not to be electrocuted!

RonDavis Loc: Chicago, IL

Ed......I busted out laughing when I read your last sentence......lol...lol

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

I used them for a little over a year, but I was always concerned with them snagging on something (not because I was worried about damaging the camera, but because those things are easy to lose!). I don't miss them in actual use at all.

Ben

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

That is quite a rig indeed!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Interesting.
I use them on cameras that take them.
Done a lot of rugged hiking etc. and never had one catch on anything.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

I wasn't kidding! I was asked, by our local Hydro-Electric supplier to cover restoration operations after a serious power outage due to some widespread violent storm damage. More than half the city was without power for several days.

I was a bit reluctant to shoot from a stepladder on a nearby ledge but I have no fear of heights and the weather was calm at the beginning of the day. By the time I go to my vantage point, a nasty thunderstorm had set in. I thought "this is not good- poor me- but the lightening was a great photo-op" that is until I saw the lineman working on live wires, next to a building with a tin roof, in the midst of an electrical storm, AND experiencing an arc-over. ZAP Neither of us was struck by lightning or was electrocuted.

I did not relate this story to my wife. She would have me committed to the local asylum!

I titled the shot- "How'd you like this guy's job"?

RonDavis Loc: Chicago, IL

Hey Ed, another great shot and great timing. No, I don't want that job....it's too electrifying

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

EL, I like your rig on your Canon. I really like the clean, tidy manner in which you rigged it up. No doubt it can be set up at a moment’s notice.

I was going to go through the pain and anguish of having tiny stainless aircraft cables threaded through my eyelids so that with a series of pullies and levers I could activate the shutter at the blink of an eye. Literally. Actually two blinks. I’d blink one eye to activate the auto focus and the other eye to take the shot. Your ingenuity has saved me a couple of surgeries. Thanks!

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Pullies, levers, and eyelids! I can relate to that. Rube Goldberg was my childhood idol!

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Perhaps you might read the OP beyzond the headline tItle.

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