Homemade Digital Shutter release

I spent way too much time messing with this thing today but it works like a

champ!. With about $30, I was able to build the homemade shutter release

with a 40' extension. I built it modular so that I had a short version to

use right off of the camera or to add the 37' extension to it to get some

distance. I have a bird feeder on my deck that I get a lot of visitors

(when I remember to put food out) I wanted to be able to tripod mount my

EOS and run the long cable through the living room window so that I could

fire some really close shots of the bird friends. See the next shot that

was taken using this setup (no birds before it got dark)

Done