Macro photography
Macro slider setup v2

Content:

1. Macro slider setup v2
2. Macro lense system
3. Lense bracket
4. LED flash
5. First macro photo test
6. Remote control
7. New high precision macro sled
8. Left, Right, Height micro adjustment
9. To be continued

Note:
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6. Remote control

I have many of these cable remote controllers, they are all of poor quality. Two of them are broken. Here I take one apart to investigate how they are connected in the special Canon N3 connector. I need this information because I maybe in the future build a cable to connect to some computer to automatic taking the photos and move the sled. A warning, just take it as information, it's easy to destroy the camera if something goes wrong.

Canon EOS N3 electric connector:

My Canon camera is the Canon EOS 6D, it doesn't have the normal 3.5 mm telephone plug. It has this strange device, it's called N3. Even worse, no one sell them. You have to buy a remote controller and take the cable from it, that's why I have so many of them. The remote controller has two functions

1. It set auto focus
2. It shot and take the photo

It's the last I use, that's the two pins to the right. The connact in the camera has never been any problem with.

Remote cable:

This is the bad thing, the remote cable. In this case the remote controller has no connection to the camera. It can be the push button switch or the cable that malfunction. In this case I found the it was the cable that was bad, but some problem with the switch to the push button too. The switch I only had to solder and then it worked again.

But how to fix the cable when there is no new N3 contact to buy ?

Dissection of the cable:

I took a knife and cut through the rubber and plastic and carefully let the socket be untouched. Took a new cable solder the old sleeves to it. I don't use the auto focus function and skipped that third cable.

Reassemble:

After a test I found it worked as it should again, now I can reassemble it again.

The plastic shield is intact and could be used again. The push button has a lock function, it can be used when taking time lapse photos.

Finished:

I let it be like this to test it out properly, later I glue the contact at the camera end of the cable together. I can use this remote controller to my telescope too. Great to have one in spare. I have a third broken remote controller with the 3.5mm telephone S3 plug, a work for a rainy summer day.