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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
I have just bought a Canon PowerShot G7, and this camera has a hot
shoe. Does anybody know wheteher I can use an old fashioned flash unit with this hot shoe, or whether it could damage the camera? When I say "old fashioned flash-unit", I mean a flash unit made for an analoge camera (we are talking last century). Do you know? If you do, I would be grateful if you tok the time to let me know. Magne Braaten |
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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
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I have just bought a Canon PowerShot G7, and this camera has a hot shoe. Does anybody know wheteher I can use an old fashioned flash unit with this hot shoe, or whether it could damage the camera? When I say "old fashioned flash-unit", I mean a flash unit made for an analoge camera (we are talking last century). Do you know? If you do, I would be grateful if you tok the time to let me know. Magne Braaten http://www.botzilla.com/photo/strobeVolts.html Have a look at this list. If your flashgun has a trigger voltage higher than 24 volts, don't use it with your G7. Dennis. |
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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
There are a couple of issues here...
1. If the flash is an older unit, the voltage on its terminals might damage the camera. 2. The digital camera may have a "red eye" feature. This can trip off some slave units. If you are comfortable with issue #1, give it a try, and see what the results are. Myself, I bought a small flash unit (Sunpak, about $30) for my Olympus C-5000. I can run it from the hot shoe, or as a slave unit. I ended up giving all my old film equipment and a flash to my grandson... |
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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
"professorpaul" wrote in message ups.com... There are a couple of issues here... 1. If the flash is an older unit, the voltage on its terminals might damage the camera. 2. The digital camera may have a "red eye" feature. This can trip off some slave units. If you are comfortable with issue #1, give it a try, and see what the results are. Myself, I bought a small flash unit (Sunpak, about $30) for my Olympus C-5000. I can run it from the hot shoe, or as a slave unit. I ended up giving all my old film equipment and a flash to my grandson... Wein Products has two items which apply. The HSHS will protect the camera from high voltages. There is also a digital HS which both protects from too high voltage and senses the second flash for use with a slave unit. Many (most?) digital cameras' flash units trigger an exposure setting flash ahead of the main flash. This is not the same as a red eye reducing flash and is so close to the main flash that you generally will not be aware of it. However, a slave flash without the digital hot shoe will trigger with the pre-flash and thus will not illuminate the picture. If you are using a slave flash, take your picture in a mirror with both the camera's flash and the slave flash. You may be surprised, as I was, that the slave flash, while it fired, doesn't show up as flashing in the picture. No, I have no connection with Wein; don't even know for certain that these products are still available, but if they are, they are worth their cost. Bill Yowell |
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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
"professorpaul" wrote in message
ups.com... There are a couple of issues here... 1. If the flash is an older unit, the voltage on its terminals might damage the camera. 2. The digital camera may have a "red eye" feature. This can trip off some slave units. If you are comfortable with issue #1, give it a try, and see what the results are. Myself, I bought a small flash unit (Sunpak, about $30) for my Olympus C-5000. I can run it from the hot shoe, or as a slave unit. I ended up giving all my old film equipment and a flash to my grandson... You may have problems if you are using digital SLRs. For example, with the Canon digital SLRs you need a Canon EX flashgun. The older EZ flashguns will not work because they sense the light reflected off the film in their film bodies. This reflected light this isn't available in their digital bodies. Regards, Ian. |
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Can I use an old fashion flash unit with a digital camera?
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I have just bought a Canon PowerShot G7, and this camera has a hot shoe. Does anybody know wheteher I can use an old fashioned flash unit with this hot shoe, or whether it could damage the camera? When I say "old fashioned flash-unit", I mean a flash unit made for an analoge camera (we are talking last century). Yes, but with some caveats. Here is a page about buying a flash for a Canon camera with E-TTL, such as the G7: http://hannemyr.com/photo/flash.html Btw, I have a Powershot G5 and use it regularly with an older, non-dedicated, flash. It works great and for main flash it actually gives more precsie exposure than Canon's 580EX. -- - gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://hannemyr.com/photo/ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sigma SD10, Kodak DCS460, Canon Powershot G5, Olympus 2020Z ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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