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

Started Oct 1, 2019 | Discussions thread
neilt3
neilt3 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,008
Re: Anyone familiar with these flashes? Old Minolta 3600HS(D) and 5400 HS
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  1. SQLGuy wrote:

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.

Regardless of if it's the Sony or Minolta badged versions , they work the same .

The Minolta 5600hs/d and Sony 56am can only act as a controller (trigger) on film cameras .

On digital cameras , Minolta or Sony , that function was disabled .

Sony DSLRs and SLTs with a pop up flash can control all four of these flashes .

The Sony HVL-F20AM can be used to control them as the trigger on cameras without a pop up flash ( and some others )

The Sony HVL-F58AM also controls them and also has ratio control .

Some other Sony flashes can also be used as a controller .

Some later Sony flashes had different protocol's and have restricted use on film cameras and would only function correctly in HSS mode .

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