EX series Speedlites work on multifunction hotshoe (pics)

Sittatunga wrote:

m100 wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

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. 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.

My M6II has connectors like that for the viewfinder.

I keep the little cover on it when nothing is on the hot shoe.

I blow it out with the rocket blower too so I do not get dust or dirt up in there after using the hot shoe.

So does my RX100M2. I used the hotshoe with a remote trigger to fire a demonstration studio flash for the first time in five years. It was ridiculous, but I couldn't resist it.

I'm sure the R50's accessory shoe isn't primarily for flash anyway. And the more worrying cheapening of that camera is the lid of the sensor cleaning vibrator. It's not a camera for someone who changes lenses outdoors a lot.

Yes, an interchangeable lens camera newbee sure enough would need a sensor cleaning vibrator I would think.

The hot shoe is mainly for the Stereo Microphone DM-E100 in the creator kit ?

https://www.parkcameras.com/shop/canon-eos-r50-with-rf-s-18-45mm-creator-kit_1012185r