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Is my G85 hot shoe dead?

Started Sep 28, 2017 | Questions thread
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dougc6 New Member • Posts: 7
Is my G85 hot shoe dead?

I've owned a G85 for about a month and I went to use my trusty old Sunpak 433D for some additional flash reach, but the G85 won't trigger the flash.  What the?  The flash still works on my GH-1, and a G7, but not the G85?  Is there some setting buried in the menus to enable/disable the hot shoe?  Is anybody else using 3rd party strobes with their G85?

Looking like I'll be sending in the nearly new G85 for warranty repair.  Have to say I'm very discouraged in the G85 build quality; I'm already on my second body, the first developed an sensor/display issue where the display would fill up with pink noise, and the only recovery was a battery pull.  I've owned many Lumix cameras over the years and never had this much trouble with any of them.

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