Extending the Flash Cord 2

[cowman345]

Anyone have experience extending the Canon Off-Shoe Flash Cord 2?

I'd like to have detatchable 25 foot cord to extend the length of my flash cord. Before I cut the cable, is this shielded? How does one wire in shielding?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[scottbergerphoto]

Anyone have experience extending the Canon Off-Shoe Flash Cord 2?

I'd like to have detatchable 25 foot cord to extend the length of my flash cord. Before I cut the cable, is this shielded? How does one wire in shielding?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
A couple of people have posted that they cut the cord and put connectors on the ends and inserted another length of cord in between with matching connectors. If you do a search above you'll probably find it.
Scott

[cowman345]

Yes, I've searched, but to no avail. Does anyone know what thread this was in?

-dave-

[Tapeman]

It is probably 5 conductor unshielded.

I added 30 feet to a cable release. Canon wanted $90. for their 10 meter extention, so I bought another release for $50. and spliced in 30 feet of 3 conductor cable.

[Conor]

http://www.iaw.com/~pturton/cord2/index.htm

[fishingjts]

Well... I can't speak for the Canon cord.... but in my Minolta days I summoned up my courage and cut my off camera cord and spliced in like 20 feet of phone wire... :o worked great and was a LOT cheaper...

[iwatkins]

I'm just looking at this myself.

In the UK at least, you can buy the off camera cord in a store called Jessops that is functionally the same as the Canon version, but for £25. I bought one the other day because I want to do just this.

I'm planning to just use the two end pieces and totally replace the cable.

Cheers

Ian

[sjprg]

And the first time someone trips over the cable and pulls the camera and or the flash over and it hits the floor, you have more than paid the price of the ST-E2. Sooner or later it will happen.