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Minolta 5600HS on A200, will it work?

Started Sep 24, 2007 | Discussions thread
Canon 64 New Member • Posts: 9
Re: Minolta 5600HS on A200, will it work?

Owners of Sony or Minolta type flash guns who- The flash MUST be attached to the camera and both turned on in the funcion button on the camera it should be on "Wireless mode" you will then be able to use wireless setting on the flash gun 1/1 power setting is default but can be set to 1/2 for less power the W/L symbol will show but the most important thing the Flashgun will emit a red blinking from the AF sensors this will mean that the wireless function is working and ready to fire wirelessly from the camera.

Two Minolta Flash Gun that DO work fully with Sony DSLRS with the old Minolta Hotshoe are as follows

Minota 3500 HS-D

Minolta 5600 HS-D

Unless you have The D prefix no other Minolta Flashgun will work in full TTl Mode

The above two flashguns came out basically for very late  Film then Digital KonicaMinolta DSLRs , basically the flashguns above were also later marked as Sony  AS long as your Sony DSLR has a a Minolta type hot shoe both Minlta HS-D will fully co-operate with your DSLR also wirelessly follow the instructions the Flash operaring manual if you dont have a manual they can be downloaded

Many people have not attached the flashgun to sync the settings of the camera to operate wieless control and thought the flash did not work in wireless mode.

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