If the center pin doesn't retract, it's not going to break anything. The worst that is going to happen is that you have spurious firing of the flash.
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > The shoe mount flashes I have owned all retracted the center pin, (not much > of a pin actually, usually a wire contact on these cheap, or should I say > inexpensive units), when a PC cable was plugged into them, (a couple of > Honneywells two Vivitars and an off brand something I don't remember).. I > suppose just breaking contact would have been enough. If the manufacturer > keeps the foot hot then you will have trouble. I do own a couple of Pentax > AF280Ts but they don't have built in PC connection capabilities. > > On 3/7/2011 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? >> >> And, while I'm at it. I've got a couple of radio triggers that work great >> with studio strobes, but they've got the mini phono jack plugs on them. So I >> can use them with an adapter to 1/4 inch on my Paul C Buff strobes, but I >> can't use them with my speedlights. My radio triggers are Blazzeo, so >> there's a chance their speedlight receivers will work with their studio >> transmitters. Or there might be an adapter from phono plug to hotshoe. >> Unfortunately my optical trigger shoes, which have a PC jack, the PC jack >> only works to trigger other lights, not to trigger the strobe in the shoe >> from a PC cable. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
