Cable release suitable for my Canon film camera

I might be tempted by the longer one that's shown lower in that listing - you can use a long one close to the camera but it's harder to use a short one at a longer distance!
 
For long distances you can use an air release, it has a bulb on the end of the cable and you just squeeze it which operates the plunger on the shutter button.
 
Kevin Allan said:
It should be - the majority of film cameras use a standardised threaded release. I never had a Canon AV1 but have used AE1, FTB, T70, and T90, which all used that type of release.
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AH Kevin you must have forgotten that the T70 and T90 use an electrical cable to release the shutter.
 
footman said:
At my age memory is just a distant memory!
Thanks for the replies, I'll mull over the options although I won't be standing any distance away from the tripod.
It's just to counter my innate age related wobble when doing longish exposures.
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I used to use the air shutter release cable a lot (one upon a time) when you want to be in picture with a partner of a group...more accurate when you say "at the count of 3 put on your best smile". Of course if you liked to guess when the camera's timer decides to fire the shutter, you wouldn't want a cable. :rolleyes:
 
excalibur2 said:
I used to use the air shutter release cable a lot (one upon a time) when you want to be in picture with a partner of a group...more accurate when you say "at the count of 3 put on your best smile". Of course if you liked to guess when the camera's timer decides to fire the shutter, you wouldn't want a cable. :rolleyes:
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I bought an old air shutter release a few years ago for my C3. The release is about 20ft long. I use it for exactly the same purpose of group shots with me in it. It drives the family nuts when I'm "faffing" - they are all digital heathens :) Of course their disdain makes me do this even more!!
 
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I've used an air release on a couple of Mamiyaflexes and found that you have to be very, very positive pressing the bulb otherwise its possible to defeat the shutter release/wind-on lock. Never had that problem with any other cameras or lenses.
 
Kevin Allan said:
It should be - the majority of film cameras use a standardised threaded release. I never had a Canon AV1 but have used AE1, FTB, T70, and T90, which all used that type of release.
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I used an AV-1 as my main camera for most of twenty years and yes, that looks like the right kind of cable

Simple and direct operation with aperture priority, I much prefer it to the AE-1
 
Musicman said:
I used an AV-1 as my main camera for most of twenty years and yes, that looks like the right kind of cable

Simple and direct operation with aperture priority, I much prefer it to the AE-1
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When I went back to 35mm from MF after about 20 years, I decided to see what I missed esp when they were going for peanuts and the AV-1 was one of my first cameras and indirectly can use it on manual, it took some VG difficult shots (e.g. sunset).......my AV-1 has an accurate exposure meter and now use it for checking other cameras.
It amazes me people paying silly prices for the Canon "A" series cameras when a T70 is so superior (not the A-1 for what it can do), I can only think that buyers want a film camera to look like a film camera and rather be seen with a AE-1 than a T70 :oops: :$
Just to add:- if you can get a working T90 it's so superior to a A-1.
 
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