I think I paid $14.00 plus tax for the flash, it's major purpose in life
is to keep me from destroying a more expensive piece of equipment, sort
of the purpose the ZX-M originally had. Now that I no longer own the
ZX-M...
graywolf wrote:
Um...? If the trigger voltage was much too high, and the camera did
not have overvoltage protection of some sort, your problem would not
have been flakey flash operation, but rather burned out shutter
electronics. I suspect it was a polarity problem. Some of the voltage
isolation electronics are polarity sensitive, older mechanical sync
were not. You most likely could have fixed the problem by switching
the sync leads in the hotfoot of the flash.
graywolf
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P. J. Alling wrote:
My ZX-M behaved very strangely with a cheap Vivitar 2000 flash
mounted. I'm sure the trigger voltage was much too high for it.
Since then I've been careful not to mount high voltage flashes on
newer camera bodies, (I've since sold the ZX-M). I haven't used the
Vivitar on anything other than older mechanical bodys since.
Glen wrote:
At 08:19 AM 10/27/2005, Mark Roberts wrote:
"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: "Glen"
>>
>> So, I still don't know the true voltage and current specs for
the hotshoe,
>> but at least I know it works with my old higher-voltage Sunpak
flash. I'm
>> both surprised and delighted.
>
>The entire flash voltage issue is an invented one.
Possibly invented by lawyers with liability concerns.
No, I think there were some cameras made with limited hotshoe
ratings. Perhaps those were Canon or some other brand? Apparently,
many people assumed that all the new cameras had this limitation.
It's also a good way for camera store sales people to sell you
completely new flash equipment, when you might not really need it. I
suspect that some shops intentionally don't want to know which
cameras are safe with higher voltages, because they want to sell
more of their new lower-trigger-voltage flash units. I know that my
local Pentax dealer claimed the *istDS needed a low trigger voltage.
In fact, the first person I reached at Pentax didn't know the
answer, but even he seemed to think that perhaps the *istDS might
need a low trigger voltage. It was only when he transferred me to
Mark (a higher level of support), that I got an accurate description
of the truth.
take care,
Glen
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