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Anyone familiar with these flashes? Old Minolta 3600HS(D) and 5400 HS

Started Oct 1, 2019 | Discussions thread
SQLGuy
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Re: Anyone familiar with these flashes? Old Minolta 3600HS(D) and 5400 HS

neilt3 wrote:

I agree with the above , but if you can get hold of a Minolta 5600 HSD/D at a good price that would be best .

You'll get the best of both worlds with that . I have a few of them .

It's also compatible with all Sony and Minolta cameras with the same iISO hotshoe ( film and digital ) and later Sony gear with the hotshoe adapter .

Sony also sold it as the HVL-F56AM , same flash , different badge .

The 3600hs/d is also sold as the Sony HVL-F36AM .

I'm not sure they are 100% the same. I think the Sony version has newer protocol support. E.g. a 3600HS(D) or 5600HS(D) can be a slave to a Sony flash on a current Sony camera, but it can't be the trigger. Even with my A900, I have to use the HVL-F20M as the trigger (with adapter) to trigger these Minolta flashes. The Minoltas will fire in the hot shoe, and do HSS and TTL, but they won't act as triggers.

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