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

Started Oct 1, 2019 | Discussions thread
neilt3
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Re: Anyone familiar with these flashes? Old Minolta 3600HS(D) and 5400 HS

pcunnin wrote:

If I'm reading the manual right, the Minolta 5600 can be used as a controller or slave. It can also use the on-camera built in flash as a trigger, up to the flash sync speed of the camera.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/104126/Minolta-5600hs-D.html?page=26#manual

Two 5600HS (D), 3600HS (D), 5400HS, or 5400xi, or one 5600HS(D), 5400HS, or 5400xi, and one 3600HS (D) or 3500xi • Use Maxxum/Dynax 9, 7, 800si, 700si, When two flash units are used, the unit attached to the camera is used as the controller, and the other as the off-camera flash"

I don't plan on using more than one off-camera flash though, so it shouldn't matter.

neilt3 wrote:

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 .

That's correct , when used on a film camera as you are .

It's only if you wanted to use them on a digital camera that it's different .

The flashes came out before Minolta brought out the Dynax 7d and 5d , so don't mention them on the manual .

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