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Vivitar 285HV Flash

Started Dec 29, 2015 | Discussions thread
davev8
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Re: Vivitar 285HV Flash

dzba is correct the 285HV is safe...your hot shoe is rated to 250V...on page 271 of your manual it say something like "do not attach flash gun above 250V volts it may not work"     On a thread many yeas ago this was discuss and some one contacted Canon customer service or CPS i forget,  to clarify what this means..what it means if you put a gun on your camera, the camera detects its more than 250volts and wont fire it...so no gun can damage your camera

We came to the conclusion that the vague wording is a marketing ploy to put doubt in people minds so to buy canon flash guns

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