Canon DSLR shutter remote hacked into Atari joystick

Just point and shoot.

Video after the break.

[insky Posted May 17th 2010 3:25AM]

How do you know if it's in focus if you're doing it remotely?

[Ariolander Posted May 17th 2010 3:38AM]

@insky Auto-Focus and generally you setup on a tripod.

I wonder if he could rig some exposure settings to that thing so you can do some down and dirty HDR work.

[sweetelectro Posted May 17th 2010 3:44AM]

@Ariolander The point of this is that the atari stick focuses

[squirrelnut1416 Posted May 17th 2010 3:50AM]

i'd rather use a genesis controller, hopefully it'll be interchangeable just like the console.

[nooruls143 Posted May 17th 2010 3:57AM]

It can be mounted on a tripod for non-shaky pictures but you still have to see in the screen.

[buoy Posted May 17th 2010 4:32AM]

I know those atari joysticks. I used to break them when I was a kid. The rubber outing has a white skeleton underneath. After weeks of 10 year old kid abuse the plastic reinforcements (if you're game enough to call them that) give way. Need one of those expensive joys with the metal shaft. heh.

[kuruptedbhoy Posted May 17th 2010 5:30AM]

Connect a 7D and use it as a machine gun!!

[violator Posted May 17th 2010 7:05AM]

OMG you wasted an Atari joystick! Shame on you.

[NHAnimator Posted May 17th 2010 8:24AM]

Anything that uses an Atari joystick rocks. (Now if that sore between my thumb and forefinger would just heal.)

[gebo Posted May 17th 2010 9:12AM]

Seriously. Some guy managed to connect THREE wires into a joystick and that's huge news.

[alkaline Posted May 17th 2010 9:55AM]

why? proper remote shutters are small and already work. who would want to lug around an atari joystick when you can carry something the size of a stick of gum?

[Rebel6381 Posted May 17th 2010 9:58AM]

Does this remind anyone of the really big gun Bruce Willis used remotely with a joystick in "The Jackal"?

http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/jackald1.jpg

[takes12no1 Posted May 17th 2010 11:38AM]

@Rebel6381 you beat me to it. i was gonna say " one step closer to owning a Jackel gun"

[benr Posted May 17th 2010 10:26AM]

Jeez.... You can LITERALLY make ANYTHING with a switch in it a "shutter release". Why is this post worthy? Because of the retro Atari joystick? I mean he should of at least made the joystick do some pan control or SOMETHING more!

[soupisgoodfood Posted May 18th 2010 2:18AM]

We can vote on comments. I wish we could vote on posts, even if it didn't hide the low ranked ones.