MC-35 GPS Cable

[ldallara]

So I was only able to find the cable at several ripoff camera shops

, it's current selling for $189.00 plus shipping.

Ebay auctions are also running about $187.00

 

It look like in Januray a offshore company will start producing them at

an unknown cost, but looks like a nice product, it will have custom connectors

for each GPS reciever.

Here's the link, email them if interested.

 

http://www.pc-mobile.net/nikongps.htm

 

Nikon seems to be a sleep..

 

Lou Dallara

http://www.louisdallara.com

[cabophoto]

Lou,

 

I have a cable that I bought eight years ago from a South-Africen company; it was intended to connect an N90s to an RS-232 port. I tried to connect my Garmin eTrex GPS to a D200 with it - works great ! I remember it was around 50 USD back then. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the company.

 

Carsten

[cabophoto]

A bit of searching with Google pointed me to their website: http://www.cocoon-creations.com/COCOON-Home.shtml

 

Hope this helps

 

Carsten

[cabophoto]

Unfortunately they seem to have raised their prices a bit and are now in the same ballpark as the original Nikon cable...

 

Carsten

[wisp]

You can make your own (that's what I am doing) - allows you to customize the connector, the length of the cable, the mount for the GPS (mine will be an old hotshoe bracket from an SB-10). I purchased an MC-23 from B&H for $65 (it gives me two ends - one will be a remote cable release for my dad) and as I have a Holux GPSlim236, will be using a USB mini-B for the GPS end.

 

Check out hackaday.com or just google - you do need to do a little soldering to add the serial converter though, so if that's not your bag it might be better to wait.

 

I'll post mine when I have it finished - I am hoping to complete it this weekend.

[ldallara]

Well hi Josh and thanks everybody for the reply.

 

Yes; I'm a retired PCB design engrg and know how to solder,

but was worried about blowing up my D200... lol

 

thou I wouldn't mind reverse engrg a MC-35 and build my own.

 

Please let me know how your works out..

 

Lou Dallara

[ldallara]

BTW Guys, The Garmin mounting bracket for the dashboard is plastic and fit the hot shoe nicely, un-like the Velcro kludge that Red Hen uses.

[ldallara]

The folks at pc-moble have informed me that there cable will out in 2 weeks, no price yet, so i'm on hold.

[RCRogers]

www.central-camera.com has the MC-35 for $97.95USD.

[ldallara]

PC-Moble has added pricing into to there MC-35 custom cable,

for the Garmin it $53.00. Looks like great design, it does away with the GPS cable and is all in one. It cleans up the cable mess you have when hooking a MC-35 to a GPS.

 

http://www.pc-mobile.net/nikongps.htm

[anthony_tubbs]

Not really an answer but according to the site only a serial connection works, so my question is will a serial to USB converter work so that the USB GPS models work also. Thanks