Cable from remote to pocketwizard

[tomcat360]

Hey all,

I have a cheap-o knockoff China made remote that has a N-3 plug on it for my 20D. On the part you hold in your hand, it has a small plug that looks like a 1/8" jack, but it's slightly smaller I do believe. It looks something like what is in the photo attached.

Now my question, is 1.) what kind of jack is that, and 2.) what kind of cable do I need to connect to the 1/8" camera port in my pocketwizards and where could I get it? Or should I just make it?


Thanks for the help! I'm just trying to get a set up working well before basketball season.

[ben_r_]

Pop it open and see how its wired, post some pics of it, then we can see how it works and make some suggestions...

[gromeo]

Is this so you can trigger the PW without using the test button?

[Hermes]

I just cut mine in half in the middle of the cable, fit a 3.5mm stereo plug to one end and a 3.5mm stereo socket to the other end so it will connect to any trigger with standard 3.5mm cables

[tomcat360]

Well I figured I could cut it up, but I'm mainly referring to the jack in the side right there. I'll still open it up and take some pics. But I figured if I could make some sort of cable to go in that side jack to the camera port, then I would have a working remote still that I could focus with for when I'm close to the camera.

Gromeo, this is so I could have one PW on the hot shoe of the camera in hand, and a pocketwizard linked into the N3 port on a second camera, so when I shoot the camera in hand, the second one goes off which will be put somewhere behind the backboard for basketball.

I feel like I'm doing an awful job explaining, haha. Sorry about that.