Vintage flash on a 400D
Re: 'different hot shoes'
karl mohr wrote:
Also, are hot shoes for the Nikon, Canon, Olympus, and Pentax all different? Were they in the film days as well?
In film days...
I think only Minolta (now Sony) had a unique, proprietary hotshoe shape. All others used an industry standard hot- (and cold-) shoe/foot. The shape and size is standarized, as is the large center electrical contact for the fire signal in the hotshoe. A "cold" shoe lackes the electrical trigger contact so the flash is triggered by connecting the camera and speedlite via a (also standard) PC sync cord.
Where each brand differed was in the implementation of the extra electrical contacts in the shoe that communicated TTL autoexposure and other information. A fully manual or auto-thyrister type speedlite can be fired from any hotshoe, but for TTL flash one had to have a speedlite designed for the specific camera brand.
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