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R50 - no hotshoe pins??

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Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: For all practical purposes ....
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jwilliams wrote:

For all practical purposes the R50 has to be used with its built in flash. I only found one flash, the EL-5 for $399, that uses the new connector. It's bog and it's expensive. Nobody's going to put that on a R50 and pretty much any flash adapted via the adapter is going to be too big also. I'm sure eventually they'll come out with a compact flash using the new connector but nothing I can find for now.

To be honest, this camera isn't aimed at ambitious flash users, and that accessory shoe is really for video and vlogging. Considering the launch price of this compared with that of the R10, never mind the R7, it's not surprising there's visible cost cutting and penny pinching. I always did think that RF mount was too expensive for APS-C.

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Canon would have saved more money by omitting the built-in flash and providing the central hotshoe contact and the four Canon E-TTL contacts. That would have pleased the purists, but not people who were looking for the smallest possible flash capable camera (carrying a flashgun around as well is a pain), or didn't have or intend to buy a flashgun (pretty much the target market).

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