Canon (TTL) cord 2

[mcdcwain]

Is it possible to link two Canon cord 2's together to make a 4 foot cord?.

Anyone tried it.

Regards

Mike

[slin100]

Canon officially doesn't condone it, but it's been reported to work.

[chris maddock]

It should do - I cut mine and fitted a mini-DIN plug/socket pair to the ends so I can extend it by considerably more than four feet. It works fine.

KRs
Chris

[scottbergerphoto]

mcdcwain wrote:
Is it possible to link two Canon cord 2's together to make a 4 foot cord?.

Anyone tried it.

Regards

Mike
I believe I've read that you can, but that's $80 a cord. At that price wouldn't some kind of wireless system (STE2, Pocket Wizard, FreeWire) start to make sense? I realize only the STE2 would preserve ETTL out of those options. You could also put that money towards a 550 Ex and use that to trigger a 420EX wirelessly. After all, it is Christmas. :) It's fun to spend other people's money.
Scott

[imago57]

It should do - I cut mine and fitted a mini-DIN plug/socket pair to the ends so I can extend it by considerably more than four feet. It works fine.

KRs
Chris

Chris can you be more specific please? Did you link together 2 cords or did you just extend the lenght of the original cord? I would go for the second option, of course, if it works. Also can you be more specific about the kind of plug you used? I am sorry I am not very familiar with the "mini-DIN" term.

Thanks.

[chris maddock]

imago57 wrote:
It should do - I cut mine and fitted a mini-DIN plug/socket pair to the ends so I can extend it by considerably more than four feet. It works fine.

KRs
Chris

Chris can you be more specific please? Did you link together 2 cords or did you just extend the lenght of the original cord? I would go for the second option, of course, if it works. Also can you be more specific about the kind of plug you used? I am sorry I am not very familiar with the "mini-DIN" term.


Mini-DINs are the same plugs/sockets as used for PC (AT type) keyboard and mouse cables.

I cut the original cord, roughly in the middle, and fitted a mini-DIN plug to one half and a mini-DIN socket to the other - so that it can be used at the standard length as well.
I then made up a cable with matching plugs/sockets (10m or so long, IIRC) to act as the extension. Others who have tried it have used PC keyboard extension cables instead - probably a far better idea, in retrospect, if you don't need such a long extension ;-)

The type of connector doesn't actually matter, the important thing is that it caters for six wires - the five that the flash contacts use, plus the shielding which I think also acts as an earth return. I went for the mini-DINs because they are small and compact, however one person I've discussed this with went for standard size DIN connectors, those are as used on older PCs - the old XT type. The advantage to that is that they are bigger, therefore far easier and less fiddly to solder the wires to.

Hope that helps,
Chris

[imago57]

It sure does help Chris, thank you very much for the tip...I think I am going to give it a try.