WHAT !!!!! New Sony hot shoe????

I know this has been discussed before but iThe old minolta iISO shoe never bothered me, in fact I find it very satisfactory and well designed, and it was certainly ahead of its time.

1) my minolta flashes worked perfectly.

2) if i needed to use studio lights I would use the PC socket on the camera

3) If I wanted radio triggers with a normal ISO hotshoe I'd use the FS1200 hot shoe convertor or similar which is available for a few dollars/pounds/yen on ebay.

4) Sigma & Metz mad reliable 3rd party flashes that fitted the iISO hot shoe. In fact I would say the Metz flashes was better than the Minolta Sony ones!!!

5) Recently a whole slew of radio triggers (TTL and non TTL) have appeared with the iISO hot shoe from manufacturers such as Pixel and Aokatec

http://www.lightingrumours.com/phottix-odin-ttl-flash-trigger-for-sony-alpha-coming-soon-2747

http://www.lightingrumours.com/aokatec-ak-ttl-wireless-flash-trigger-released-2737

And now sony has changed the hotshoe back to what looks like a single pin dumb iso shoe???????

How's that gonna work???

All they needed to do was put a 3 dollar hot shoe convertor accessory in with the camera!

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