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Subject: [OM] Re: Flash connectors question
From: jeff-keller@xxxxxxx (Jeff Keller)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:40:14 +0000
At B&H
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=89979&is=REG&addedTroughType=search

This sounds like what you want. Search for hot shoe then sort price low to high.
-jeff
-------------- Original message from jeff-keller@xxxxxxx (Jeff Keller): 
-------------- 


> The hot shoe adapter you found looks like it is made by Sonia. I believe it 
> is 
> intended to provide PC outputs for a camera that does not have any. There are 
> probably diodes between each of the connections that will keep a positive 
> voltage from flowing from one PC connection to the next. I don't think it 
> will 
> do what you want. 
> 
> You want a hot shoe adapter that is intended to mount a flash to a stand. It 
> should have a threaded hole on the bottom rather than the foot which this one 
> has. 
> 
> -jeff 
> 
> -------------- Original message from Dan Mitchell : 
> -------------- 
> > 
> > Poking around on e*ay, is 7522871541(say) what I'm looking for? It 
> > gives the impression that you could run a PC cable between a camera and 
> > one of the sockets on there and it would trigger the shoe (item 1 in 
> > their list), but I'm not quite sure how it can do that and also provide 
> > two PC outputs (item 2 in their list). 
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas as to what's going on there? Ideally, if I 
> > bought a bunch of those and some PC cables, I could have (non-TTL) 
> > multiple flashes set up off-camera, but I don't want to get anything 
> > electrically wrong and end up blowing things up.. 
> > 
> > -- dan 
> > 
> 
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