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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
  • Makkita wrote:

It can also use the on-camera built in flash as a trigger, up to the flash sync speed of the camera.

That's right , the pop up flash will control them as mentioned in my second post , however the Sony a7 series camera the O.P also wants to use it with doesn't have a pop up flash and therefore requires a second flash that is capable of acting as a controller .

Other Sony E mount cameras that do have a pop up flash are unable to trigger / control other flashes with it for some reason , so also need another flash to act as a controller if the camera is fitted with a hot shoe .

You can get slave triggers that can be set up to fire a flash that are triggered by an on board flash , but you have no TTL metering with this .

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