{"id":4,"date":"2003-03-30T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T11:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:40:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:40:20","slug":"nikon_mc-eu1_wired_remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/03\/30\/nikon_mc-eu1_wired_remote.php","title":{"rendered":"Nikon MC-EU1 wired remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I purchased the Nikon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005219F\/103-1910873-6862264?vi=glance\">MC-EU1<\/a> wired remote control for my Coolpix 5700 to improve my low light picture taking.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPrior to this purchase I used to put my camera into timer mode for taking slow shutter pictures to prevent camera shake from the button press etc.  This used to be very annoying as taking a picture involved:<br \/>\n1) Position Camera<br \/>\n2) Test focus using half shutter press<br \/>\n3) Engage timer mode by pressing the button on the side 3 times<br \/>\n4) press the shutter once for 10 second wait or twice for 3 second wait.<br \/>\nThis was time consuming and heavy on the battery as the LCD was used a lot more than it really should have been.<br \/>\nSince buying the remote matters have improved a lot:<br \/>\n1) Position Camera<br \/>\n2) Adjust zoom with the remote if needed<br \/>\n3) Press the shutter on the remote halfway to confirm focus<br \/>\n4) Press all the way to take the shot.<br \/>\nThis is a massive improvement in my life.<br \/>\nThe MC-EU1 can control the zoom of the camera though I find it is a bit difficult to make small adjustments as there seem to be some lag between a press on the remote and the action actually happening.  It also have various time delay modes, I have not tried these yet but various reviews I read complain that the shorted delay is 120 seconds and this isn&#8217;t always optimal.<br \/>\nMy next purchase will no doubt be a spare battery as you end up using the LCD all the time, and I think the USB port on the camera take some extra power aswell, so be aware that the amount of pictures you usually take will decrease when using the camera a lot in this kind of setup.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.devco.net\/album02\/ldn_eye\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.devco.net\/albums\/album02\/ldn_eye.sized.jpg\" border=0><\/a><br \/>\nLondon Eye &#8211; click for larger view<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I purchased the Nikon MC-EU1 wired remote control for my Coolpix 5700 to improve my low light picture taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}