Amazingly, nobody mentioned the reason why hot shoe covers are needed. The tidiness aspect is a minor consideration. The big consideration is the desire not to get a painful shock to an eyebrow when you have a flash connected to the PC terminal and nothing on the hot shoe, in which case the trigger voltage of the flash is present across the hot shoe's terminals.
regards, Anthony Farr Amazingly, nobody mentioned the reason why hot shoe covers are needed. The tidiness aspect is a minor consideration. The big consideration is the desire not to get a painful shock to an eyebrow when you have a flash connected to the PC terminal and nothing on the hot shoe. In that circumstance the trigger voltage of the external flash is present across the hot shoe's terminals. regards, Anthony Farr
