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R50 - no hotshoe pins??

Started 1 month ago | Discussions thread
ksom Junior Member • Posts: 36
Re: R50 - no hotshoe pins??
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This looks bad and I think it will give people a bad taste. I can understand Canon wants to lower cost for an entry level camera, so removing some functions makes sense. However, why remove the lower cost option? Standard hotshoe allows users to use many old flashes, including 3rd party ones (make me think the RF lens situation). Now, the R50 customers has to buy a new flash with the new pins, which I assume won't work on other vendors bodies, or spend extra to buy an adapter. It is backward from a lower cost for the customer point of view.

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