Cable (MC-36): When Light Is Hardly Visible
 
The modern digital camera is a clever device. If you think that the setting of the sun necessarily ends your day of photography, you are seriously mistaken.  Many people do not realise how little light it actually takes to allow you to shoot photos. If you find your camera and set it to M (manual) and choose the slowest possible shutter speed your display will, depending on the model of your camera, read appx. 30 seconds. What can you do if you actually need a much slower shutter speed?

The MC-36 cable helps us use very long exposures when light is nearly invisible to the human eye. This cable “short circuits” the shutter mechanism of a camera making it possible to set shutter speeds, in advance, of for instance 1 second, 7 seconds, 20 minutes or 5 hours. Your shutter speed can also be a combination, e.g. one hour twenty minutes and seven seconds (01:20'07”). Your imagination as well as the available light, are the only limits.  Using the MC-36 in combination with very slow shutter speeds will naturally require that you use a tripod.

The MC-36 allows us to shoot in light that is downright hopeless.

The cable is set to the ingenious shutter speed of one hour and 30 seconds.

A section of the Milky Way exposed using a shutterspeed of a little less than a minute.

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