Sony's new flash hotshoe design WORST design I have ever seen in a flash

OntarioJohn wrote:

I at least, love my a99, and can live with the change. They wanted to keep on the old Minolta shoe...

but the whiners won.

Perhaps I'm the only one, but I never liked flash photos. Put in that silly blue bulb with the steel wool inside and burn it, throw it away, and burn your fingers. Nuts.

Now you just throw away batteries, or you need 4 power bars to recharge batteries you try and manage, the ones with numbers...which ones were charged again, oh yea, the ones with the 4's marked with a sharpie.