I hate Canon right now... Locked

ken_in_nh wrote:

Overrank wrote:

ken_in_nh wrote:

andrzej bialuski wrote:

I feel your pain. Some manufacturers are playing a wicked game with us.

Not having a flash synch contact is akin to a camera without a tripod thread.
Both are standard for 100+ years of photography.

Not including these is like selling a car without a rear window; but a hole instead, where you can insert an "add on" piece of glass at extra cost.

actually, NO. Hot shoes as we know them today are a 1970s innovation, and took a long time to "standardize". Before that, dating to the 1950s, we had PC Connectors. Before that, I have no idea.

So we've had at least three iterations in the past 100 years.

You really should do your homework before making such misleading, inflammatory posts.

Some people just don't like change, I guess. But here, it's hard to understand given the easy solution.

Cameras at least from the late 1940s / early 1950s had a cold shoe ( e.g. https://www.kenrockwell.com/kodak/retina-1a.htm ) and used a cable to the PC socket ( these were used for rangefinders and viewfinders too)

So what? We've been talking about hot shoes here, in case you didn't notice! And, until

yes, I’m aware of that

the PC connector, the connectors from flash to camera were not standardised like we think of today. And you don't need to go back that far to where there was no flash synch at all. Instead, there were add ons that triggered the shutter when you pushed a button on the flash!

Finally, do you mind showing me where the PC terminal is on the camera you linked to? Can't see it, probably because it doesn't have it, since it was launched before PC terminals became common. Just having x-synch doesn't mean that much.

The PC socket is under the lens by the front panel