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Sami Kulju

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« on: February 18, 2008, 08:44:37 am »

Hi!

Guess I´m getting clumsy (and old) but i have been stepping on cables a lot lately...

I use Canon DSLR:s, Mamiya with both Aptus and ZD and would like to find a cable lock-system.
Something like a plate under a camera that locks the cable tight in that end.

I tried to google but must have used wrong combinations of words,  since I mainly found different hubs etc.

Any suggestions and user opinions of possible differend brands?

sami
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« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2008, 09:40:33 am »

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Hi!

Guess I´m getting clumsy (and old) but i have been stepping on cables a lot lately...

I use Canon DSLR:s, Mamiya with both Aptus and ZD and would like to find a cable lock-system.
Something like a plate under a camera that locks the cable tight in that end.

I tried to google but must have used wrong combinations of words,  since I mainly found different hubs etc.

Any suggestions and user opinions of possible differend brands?

sami
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« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2008, 09:49:24 am »

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thank You very much!

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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2008, 01:21:55 pm »

I shoot mainly tabletop studio stuff and I have a client that would seemingly go out of her way to step on, trip over, pull out the firewire cable so I built a "device" in her name that hangs from my ceiling.  I call it the Stutner Device. It's really just a channel that the firewire cable runs through that  comes from the workstation to the camera.  It's attached to pulleys that allow me to raise or lower it since the studio ceiling is 7 meters high.  With a 10 meter Firewire cable I can reach just about anywhere I need to be and no more cables on the floor to step on.

The cable lock system in the link seems like just the ticket for other places, I need to pick me up one of those.
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2008, 01:25:41 pm »

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Hi!

Guess I´m getting clumsy (and old) but i have been stepping on cables a lot lately...

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If you get one of these products then intead of knocking the cable out you will drop the camera  say you leave it on a table

Use with care - cables come out for a reason

Admitedly some just fall out which of course it a PITA

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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2008, 03:35:53 pm »

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If you get one of these products then intead of knocking the cable out you will drop the camera  say you leave it on a table

Use with care - cables come out for a reason

Admitedly some just fall out which of course it a PITA

S
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I shoot 90% of my work in location. Outdoors and indoors. In rain, sun and in snow.
So I need portable solution, no tunnels in studio.

I will lock a short (about 50 cm) cable to bottom of camera and longer extension cable will cut loose from that if/when I stumble.

With Aptus the standard Leaf-cable has 90 deg angle in the FW-plug so that don´t come out easily. Couple of times I have almost dropped the camera from my hands when somebody (me usually) has stepped on cable. It is very tight. Tough desing and best IMHO thinking I´ve seen so far.

That is the case with Aptus.

With ZD the FW-port in back just looks/is very vulnerable so I like to get the possible stress away from there and move it to the connection of the short and long cable.

Canons, well... not better than ZD port. I´m amazed they still work.

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