What is this large cable release for?

Marco Buonocore

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I've got this large cable release and I'd love to know what it's for. It's about 3/8" wide (8mm), and it's got threading on the inside of the "barrel" - for lack of a better word. So it must screw onto something, as opposed to into the camera with a regular cable release. The actual plunger, or whatever one would call it, that comes out of the cable is about 1/8" thick.



Anyone have any idea what it's for? It's been sitting in a drawer for about 10 years, and I've never gotten around to identifying it.

Thanks!
 

Ken Nadvornick

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The Nikon F shutter release button (and the Nikon F2, and presumably the others mentioned above?) does not also have a standard cable release threaded socket. That barrel threads over the top of the button, then the plunger depresses the button.

Ken
 
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Ricardo Miranda

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It used to be known as the "Leica bell" for a reason.

Some lesser known cameras also used it. The Petri FT I had only used it.
 

John Koehrer

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To continue flogging the dying horse.

Nikon F & F2, Leica ltm's, not M series. Yashica TLRs.
 
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