On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:20 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-03-07 2:36 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> In my collection of photo gear that looked handy when I bought it, are >> several metal cold shoes. Unfortunately, when I mount a speedlight on one of >> them, bad things happen. Or at least good things don't happen. Are >> speedlights supposed to work, even with their hotshoe contacts shorted out? > > You need to insert a thin piece of mylar or similar to prevent shorting. When > I asked about this very thing a couple of years ago, somebody suggested that > 35mm film could be used for that. > > The better coldshoes are either insulated or leave a gap under the flash shoe > to prevent shorting.
Aha! So, what I need to do, is make a template based on the contacts on my strobes, and just drill out the cold shoes so that the p-ttl contacts don't short out. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
