In article <01bb8de6$5a52f040$c33acbc7@dima>, dima@mse.mhs.compuserve.com says...
>An offtopic question, sorry: does anybody know of a *shorter* than the
>standard one cable release for 8008s? I've got the original Nikon thing
>(recommended in the brochure) which is perfectly okay but it's sooooo
>long... I just need 25 cm (10 in) of it, and the rest only gets in the way.
>BTW, a very nice camera.

There is a standard cable-release adapter (both Nikon and after-market)
that screws into the same socket that the electronic release uses on the
8008 and several other Nikons.
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