Digital Flash Adapter, et al - DPChallenge Forums

10/12/2006 01:22:52 AM · #1

I have seen this new product announced in a few places and I have a question for anyone more knowledgeable on this stuff than me. I have this great box of equipment that I rarely use since I moved to my Canon 350D. In this little toy box is a nearly new Minolta Program 3600 HD flash. It has been explained to me that this is not usable with my Canon which is too bad. However, this new product looks like maybe there is new life:

Digital Flash Adapter

I have read the product details and it is still unclear to me what this Sunpak Digital Flash Adapter is capable of doing. Could this be my solution to being able to use my Minolta flash with my Canon? Any help is greatly appreciated.

P.S. I also ran across Hoodman who has announced another Right Angle Viewfinder for anyone looking for a less expensive alternative.

Right Angle Viewfinder

Message edited by author 2006-10-12 08:42:11.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 16-35 f/4 ED VR

10/12/2006 08:41:32 AM · #2

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darnok

Nikon D850

10/12/2006 09:24:03 AM · #3

The flash adapter simply fires any flash you attached to the hotshoe when it senses another flash. You use your onboard flash to trigger a slave flash. Can't see why it won't work, you will have to work in full manual mode.

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

10/12/2006 09:58:18 AM · #4

Thanks very much - it might be worth the $50 just to be able to use the old flash immediately.

eschelar

Canon EOS-7D

10/12/2006 10:15:12 AM · #5

I've seen a number of external flash adaptor type devices made by small time companies. One such device provides both a hotshoe mount with PC sync AND an optical slave receptor. It was around 30 bucks US equivalent. These are fun toys. Be careful with optical slaves as you will pretty much be stuck with using a very basic type of flash metering as the adaptors don't have very advanced tech.

To clarify that, Tumax is a company that makes a flash with an optical slave receptor which is compatibly with a number of different styles of preflashes. However, their optical slave hotshoe adaptor does not have such intelligence so has limited usefulness.

I don't think the rebel has a PC Sync port...

It might be a neat idea if you could get a hotshoe adaptor which also featured a PC sync output though.

Seagull also makes a very decent angle viewfinder.