wireless remote for Olympus E-PL1?: Micro Four Thirds Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review

wireless remote for Olympus E-PL1?: Micro Four Thirds Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review

All Olympus [MFT] micro 4/3 cameras except for the E-PL1 takes the Olympus RM-UC1 wired shutter release.
The only way to remote release the olympus PEN E-PL1 is by
manual control like this:



OR by building your own shutter release...


Ref:
Re: Alexsfo, do you know.... [SIMILAR]
Michael Meissner - 11 months ago

Alexsfo wrote:

It comes with Olympus RM-UC1 cable (connects to camera's USB cable) works virtually with every Olympus model. At the time I was searching for it I saw E-PL1 in the list of comatible models. Please check if RM-UC1 can be used with E-PL1 as other posts suggest it may be the only Olympus model that doesn't support RM-UC1. I use it with E-PL2. Sorry if I unintentionally misled anyone.

While the E-PL1 takes the standard Olympus cable, it does not support the wired shutter release. The E-PL2 added the shutter release functionality back.
The E-PL1, E-500, and E-330 are the only 3 Olympus DSLRs and mirrorless cameras that do not support a wired shutter release:

• E-1, E-300 (with portrait grip), E-3, and E-5 use the RM-CB1 cable;
• Other cameras use the RM-UC1 cable.

Some of the SP-* cameras also support the RM-UC1 shutter release (such as my SP-550UZ), but I think recent models no longer support it. The XZ-1 also supports the wired shutter release.

Picture by: Michael Meissner


Picture by: Michael Meissner