some advice pls

robbinsbox wrote:

thx for the links , will check out now. Yes, familiar with the FOV and DOF differences, and heard good things about the 30mm. Funnily enough I am not a big fan of the 50mm FF equivalent length (or around there). I just seem to choose a longer and a wider when going out but having it as a pancake cerrtainly would make a huge difference, I expect I would just bring it along. Have the 25mm 1.4 m43 lens and am ummed and arred about selling but a good part of that is the size (ok, not huge but if your not in love with the focal length then you think twice).

oh and if you happen to know if the hotshoe is standard, propitiatory or standard with caveats it would be nice to know. I use rf 603 mark II triggers for yongnuo 560III flashes, with a 3.5mm cable for remote trigger.

thx again,

The hotshoe is standard-ish, there are the typical caveats you would encounter most anywhere.  That is, they are using their own communication system, so if the flash isn't using that then you will only have a firing signal and manual flash.  So, for instance, I can't convince my Canon Speedlite 430EX to fire rear curtain or use HSS with the camera or anything like that, but drop it into full manual flash and it fires just fine.

Something to keep in mind though is that it seems to not fire when using AF if AF is not yet confirmed when you press the shutter button fully. This is worth noting because it seems that you cannot use touch to shoot mode with the flash on the NX300 due to this.

Older flashes designed for higher voltage triggering also may not work (and these can also damage the camera, this is true of most brands including Canon, I think it's mostly just Nikon these days making cameras with the very high voltage tolerance).  Samsung has some other pins for their A-TTL and perhaps also used with accessories like the GPS and the microphone, so if you want to do off camera flash with A-TTL, there is pretty much only one cable on the market for this, the JJC one, there have been a few threads about it on here.

Basically the hotshoe should work fine with anything that has a suitable trigger voltage and is only expecting a fire signal from the camera.  So, basically, it's nothing like that debacle with the Sony hotshoes.  Samsung also has some decent flashes of their own and have a new one coming soon that I'm looking forward to (SEF580A).