[Duncan Murdock] received a Canon DSLR camera for Christmas and wanted a remote shutter release to go along with it. Since nary a store was open on Christmas, he was pretty much out of luck.

Fig. 1: Canon’s mid- to high-end DSLR cameras use an N3 socket to connect remote shutter releases to the camera. A Simple Start The easiest way to construct a cable for this project is to obtain a ...

Hack: Homemade Remote Shutter Release Dave Schiller took an old mouse and a 2.5 mm stereo jack plug and rigged a remote release for his Pentax K110D (it'll work with some Canon models, too).

[Luo] sent in a very easy way to add a remote shutter to just about any Canon Powershot. Even though it’s just a button, battery, and USB cable, we’re sure this would be a great project… ...

Nk dtk says that his makeshift shutter release works perfectly with his Canon T4i/650D and should theoretically work with any camera that uses a 2.5-millimeter cable for its shutter release.

In addition to remote shutter release, the full professional version of DSLR Remote will let you use an iPhone or iPod Touch to remotely control settings such as shutter speed, aperture, and white ...