shutter cable release: Speed Graphic...

<p>hello</p>

<p>A beginner asks about a shutter cable release--are they standard size threads, or specific<br>

to the shutter? </p>

<p>The right-side 'body release' on the 4x5 Pacemaker Speed Graphic calls for a heavy duty cable (versus the <br>

'lighter touch' needed at the Copal 1 release?)...</p>

<p>B&H lists several:</p>

<p>http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?&N=4077634555+4095985253&cm_sp=Search-_-RemoteShutterRelease-_-ThreadedCableRelease_BI12536</p>

<p>thank you</p>

<p>Dean Taylor</p>

Modern cable releases are universal.

<p>I'd trust something like the red Gepe variants offered there. - They feel "made to operate my bicycle brakes". - I encountered thinner cable releases and don't know if they lasted forever (i.e. were good enough) or are "modern". I haven't seen a cable release capable of eating excessive force applied by the operator, so I doubt any offers the "lighter touch".</p>

The only ones I've ever had a problem with are the

really long ones.

<p>The best: <a href="http://www.gebr-schreck.com/ESITE/P5.html">Schreck Bros.</a></p>

I had trouble getting a modern universal release cable to mount on the Graflex shutter that came on the 135mm on the Pacemaker Speed

I used to have, and ended up buying a period one, but the body release worked fine with a modern one that was reasonably bulky.