EX series Speedlites work on multifunction hotshoe (pics)

Kharan 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.

But they offer a much more advanced connector in the hotshoe, and use a unique piece (so far) for the R50. As far as I understand industrial economics, that's not synonymous with 'lower cost', rather the opposite.

I think that shoe is more for vlogger's microphones or lighting panels than for people wanting to put a flashgun on a bottom-of-the line camera with a built-in flash. The shoe isn't really unique, its front edge connectors came with the M6 six years ago. The only thing unique about it is that Canon removed five contacts that are duplicated at the front edge.

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.

Right, but I do wonder how many people are going to put the Tascam four-channel adapter in that shoe versus a speedlite. Because right now the only thing that "hot" shoe is any good for is the audio adapter, and that device ain't cheap not simple to use.

I think it's only the vloggers who are going to use it at all. The EVF makes it too big a camera to substitute for my EOS M cameras and for similar money I'd rather have the R10 with its vibrator and AF/M switch, but that's too big for me to bother with too.

(Of course, you would need another adapter on top of that to connect your PC flash cable. What happened to that PC socket that all decent camera used to have?)

Radio triggers happened. They're very nice, much better than a seven-decade-old, fiddly connector

I know. It was a rhetorical question.

I don't think many people buying this camera will want to use big on-camera flashguns, the R10 is more suitable for that.

But as I said, the shoe on the R50, right now, is only good for a single accessory... oh, wait, and also the newest EL series speedlite. If it had been up to me, I'd have put the SL3/M50II shoe on the camera instead.

But that would have put up the price. I'm more put off by the cost-cutting lack of automatic sensor cleaning and an AF/M switch.

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.

It will. Sony introduced a similar concept in 2012 and they're using it to this day.

I was thinking more of this one.  It wasn't on the original 7000, but was on their Vectis cameras.

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