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EX series Speedlites work on multifunction hotshoe (pics)

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Re: EX series Speedlites work on multifunction hotshoe (pics)

Kharan wrote:

Dareshooter wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

+1 All of my Canon and 3rd party flashes (and radios) work on the new hotshoe.

R2

It’s the R50 that needs the adapter with EX flash because it’s hot has no pins.

You're right, it looks very weird. I thought it'd be like the SL3's shoe, that simply lacks the center pin, but it's clearly just plastic. If so, it's Canon yet again flaunting their corporate evil greed 🤦

It's Canon cheapening their bottom-of-the line offering to make it more attractive to first-time buyers. The camera has a built-in flash anyway and will almost certainly have very acceptable high ISO performance, and they make an adapter available for people who want to use their old flashguns. (Of course, you would need another adapter on top of that to connect your PC flash cable.  What happened to that PCsocket that all decent camera used to have?)  I don't think many people buying this camera will want to use big on-camera flashguns, the R10 is more suitable for that. I don't know if the front-of-the shoe contacts will work any better for Canon than Minolta's weird 7000 AF series hotshoe worked for them.

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