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TTL capable shoe cords for off camera flash (vello does not work)

Started Aug 31, 2012 | Discussions thread
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shademaster Contributing Member • Posts: 803
TTL capable shoe cords for off camera flash (vello does not work)

Hi all.

Thought I'd start a new thread so this info doesn't get buried in an older thread I started back in July. Somebody had reported that the Vello universal shoe cord would allow TTL signals on NX flashes. I tried a 3-ft Vello universal shoe cord with the SEF20a on both NX100 and NX200. Same behavior on both cameras. Camera did not detect the flash. The flash fired, but at what I would guess is full power (all blown out at ISO100, f/11).

I am very disappointed. And I think it's lame that Samsung doesn't offer a cord. Maybe they have some sophisticated wifi-based flash-TTL scheme brewing, but I'm not holding my breath.

I am tempted to get a refurb E-PM1 and the small olympus off-camera flash to start playing with off-camera. E-PM1 will apparently give wireless TTL signals to the μ4/3 flashes. Plus I am lusting after the olympus 45mm.

 shademaster's gear list:shademaster's gear list
Canon PowerShot S95 Samsung EX2F Panasonic LX100 Samsung NX300 Samsung NX 30mm F2 Pancake +3 more
Olympus PEN E-PM1 Samsung NX100 Samsung NX200
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