Building a remote shutter trigger

I've got a Fuji digital camera with the usual USB port and also an infrared
one but this last can only be used to send/receive photos from/to another
Fuji camera, don't know why.... Unfortunately a remote shutter trigger is
not foreseen, this is what I'm interested in. Alternatively I think it is
possible to command the remote shutter via USB but again this is not
foreseen. With my former Nikon camera it was possible to perform remote
shooting via WindowsXP File Manager by right clicking on the
unit-properties, but with this Fuji it is not possible.
Now isn't it possible to build a diy remote shutter trigger? Obviously Fuji
will never give me its infrared specs but perhaps someone knows some trick
to make it...
Alternatively couldn't I implement remote shutter by sending some command on
USB port by means of some Visual Basic "write port" instruction?
il barbi

In news:h2j2e7$ko4$1@nnrp.ngi.it "il barbi" <angeieri.barboggi@ngi.it>
wrote:

> Now isn't it possible to build a diy remote shutter trigger? Obviously
> Fuji will never give me its infrared specs but perhaps someone knows
> some trick to make it...
> Alternatively couldn't I implement remote shutter by sending some
> command on USB port by means of some Visual Basic "write port"
> instruction? il barbi

Unless the ability to trip the shutter through the IR or USB port is
built into the camera in the first place, your quest is hopeless.

Then, as you guess, if Fuji won't reveal the secret, you're in for a
long, long period of experimenting.

You've probably noticed that any device that implements anything beyond
the "USB mass-storage device" interface requires a special driver; if
you don't have that, you're at a dead end there too.

Have you considered the Rube Goldberg approach, using a mechanical
trigger release bolted to the camera, controlled by some other
off-the-shelf radio or infra-red remote control device?

Have you seen this?

http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/produc...cat=285&page=1

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

On 02 Jul 2009 19:56:46 GMT, Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in
<Xns9C3C97CA786CDVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7>:

>In news:h2j2e7$ko4$1@nnrp.ngi.it "il barbi" <angeieri.barboggi@ngi.it>
>wrote:
>
>> Now isn't it possible to build a diy remote shutter trigger? Obviously
>> Fuji will never give me its infrared specs but perhaps someone knows
>> some trick to make it...
>> Alternatively couldn't I implement remote shutter by sending some
>> command on USB port by means of some Visual Basic "write port"
>> instruction? il barbi
>
>Unless the ability to trip the shutter through the IR or USB port is
>built into the camera in the first place, your quest is hopeless.
>
>Then, as you guess, if Fuji won't reveal the secret, you're in for a
>long, long period of experimenting.
>
>You've probably noticed that any device that implements anything beyond
>the "USB mass-storage device" interface requires a special driver; if
>you don't have that, you're at a dead end there too.
>
>Have you considered the Rube Goldberg approach, using a mechanical
>trigger release bolted to the camera, controlled by some other
>off-the-shelf radio or infra-red remote control device?
>
>Have you seen this?
>
>http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/produc...cat=285&page=1


I suggest cutting your losses: sell the Fuji (e.g., on eBay), and
replace it with a camera that has remote trigger support.

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Best regards,
John (Panasonic DMC-FZ28, and several others)

In news:0r4q45ll82ov22kom2vj776nbjcu75krin@4ax.com John Navas
<spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

>
> I suggest cutting your losses: sell the Fuji (e.g., on eBay), and
> replace it with a camera that has remote trigger support.

Where's the fun in that?

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

"Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:Xns9C3C97CA786CDVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
>
> Have you considered the Rube Goldberg approach, using a mechanical
> trigger release bolted to the camera, controlled by some other
> off-the-shelf radio or infra-red remote control device?
>
unfortunately my Fuji model (F100fd) is not supported...
I was confident that remote acquiring was supported by right clicking on the
unit, by means of PTP protocol, but as I said with F100fd this is not true
il barbi

Why don't you just buy the Fuji remote shutter release designed for your
camera and available from Fuji?

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/dig...ens/index.html

Fuji part number RR-80.

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Cordially yours,

Young Snodgrass

Young Snodgrass wrote:
> Why don't you just buy the Fuji remote shutter release designed for your
> camera and available from Fuji?
>
> http://www.fujifilm.com/products/dig...ens/index.html
>
> Fuji part number RR-80.
>

Maybe because his camera is a F100FD and not a S100FS (or any other
bridge camera from Fuji).

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Bertrand