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Cord to connect Minolta Spotmeter F to Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash?
Until I bought a Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash I could connect my Minolta
Spotmeter F to a Vivitar 283 with a standard sync cable. But the 5600 doesn't accept a standard sync cable (the Mind of Minolta at work). If you've accomplished this feat, please let me know what cord or gizmo I need to connect the two. Thanks. Dave |
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Cord to connect Minolta Spotmeter F to Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash?
Dave Yuhas wrote:
Until I bought a Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash I could connect my Minolta Spotmeter F to a Vivitar 283 with a standard sync cable. But the 5600 doesn't accept a standard sync cable (the Mind of Minolta at work). If you've accomplished this feat, please let me know what cord or gizmo I need to connect the two. I may be wrong but you are likely SOL for two reasons: --no "AUTO" or "Non-CORD" mode on the Spotmeter F --no way to "test" fire the 5600HS other than the button on the flash. You need to put the meter in non-cord mode and hit "test" on the flash (at a manual setting of 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 ... 1/32 as appropriate) to measure the flash. Since the Spotmeter F doesn't have a non-cord mode ... (and how would you aim it while goofing with the flash, I don't know...). Perhaps hit the Spotmeter trigger and then the flash TEST button within 1/10 of a second afterwards... might work... clumsy at best). If there is a way to force the flash to manual fire via the four wire "Minolta" proprietary cable, I don't know what it is... In my home studio I sometimes hook up the 5600HS to the camera with the proprietary Minolta cables; set it manually as well as my studio flashes... when it fires, the studio lights go off on slave ... but to measure the 5600, I have to fire it with the test button not via a sync cable. (I use an incident flash meter which, one way or another, I can hang/prop or ask the subject to hold during metering of the 5600HS). G'luck. -- --e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Cord to connect Minolta Spotmeter F to Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash?
Arrrrrrrrrrrrg! I was afraid of this. I've contacted 3 retailers -
all supposedly Minolta dealers - and they couldn't answer the question. Alan Browne wrote in message ... Dave Yuhas wrote: Until I bought a Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash I could connect my Minolta Spotmeter F to a Vivitar 283 with a standard sync cable. But the 5600 doesn't accept a standard sync cable (the Mind of Minolta at work). If you've accomplished this feat, please let me know what cord or gizmo I need to connect the two. I may be wrong but you are likely SOL for two reasons: --no "AUTO" or "Non-CORD" mode on the Spotmeter F --no way to "test" fire the 5600HS other than the button on the flash. You need to put the meter in non-cord mode and hit "test" on the flash (at a manual setting of 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 ... 1/32 as appropriate) to measure the flash. Since the Spotmeter F doesn't have a non-cord mode ... (and how would you aim it while goofing with the flash, I don't know...). Perhaps hit the Spotmeter trigger and then the flash TEST button within 1/10 of a second afterwards... might work... clumsy at best). If there is a way to force the flash to manual fire via the four wire "Minolta" proprietary cable, I don't know what it is... In my home studio I sometimes hook up the 5600HS to the camera with the proprietary Minolta cables; set it manually as well as my studio flashes... when it fires, the studio lights go off on slave ... but to measure the 5600, I have to fire it with the test button not via a sync cable. (I use an incident flash meter which, one way or another, I can hang/prop or ask the subject to hold during metering of the 5600HS). G'luck. |
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Cord to connect Minolta Spotmeter F to Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash?
Dave Yuhas wrote:
Arrrrrrrrrrrrg! I was afraid of this. I've contacted 3 retailers - all supposedly Minolta dealers - and they couldn't answer the question. Cameras have become complex as systems and few store employees know more than what is printed on the brochure ... if that. The Minolta Maxxum system is proprietary and strange and does not mix well with studio lighting setups. (I use the maxxum 9 and it does both well but not concurrently... Cheers, Alan -- --e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch.-- |
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Cord to connect Minolta Spotmeter F to Minolta 5600 HS (D) flash?
Alan Browne wrote in
: If there is a way to force the flash to manual fire via the four wire "Minolta" proprietary cable, I don't know what it is... Just short two of them. At least that's the way with 5400HS and earlier, and I'd guess it should work with D flashes too? Otherwise: try to short out the two pins closest to the small plastic "guide" inside the jack that takes the extension cables. That should fire the flash, too. |
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