Vivitar V3800N 35mm SLR Camera "hotshoe" Questions

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Canon XTI Digital SLR - "Fried" from hotshoe adapter?? I connected a hotshoe adapter to my Canon XTi, power on the camera was off - I plugged in the cable to the hotshoe and then to the power pack. ...

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Question about Ricoh Photography

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...just basic necessary features that work well, and that camera will go for a long long time. The hotshoe, the 'slide' on the top of the camera that accommodates the flash, is NOT a 'dedicated'

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flash good, finally does the flash fire on another camera. My K1000 would not fire any flash on the hotshoe nor using the PC plug it needed a CLA

What flash will fit the V3800N SLR film camera? Pretty much any flashgun with a standard hotshoe. The 3800N is extremely basic and does not take advantage of any dedicated flash functions, so you'll ...

Question about Canon Photography

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...on a flash since the flash duration in essence becomes your shutter speed. I would definitely use a hotshoe mounted flash because the built in flash will most likely not be powerful enough for your ...

Question about Nikon Photography

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...longer than usual--This will cost you more too! 3) Invest in a good flash system. Nikon has tons of hotshoe flash systems that rarely compromise the ambient light-mood of a given situation. Look for ...

...but more light will be needed from the flash and the closer you will need to be to your subject. A hotshoe mounted flash will help tremendously. I hope I didn't confuse you more, but as I said

...still unpowered. Powered shoes (hot shoes) came later. All early flashguns, and many of the later hotshoe-compliant flashguns used to come with a short co-axial lead (sync lead) which would plug ...

Question about Nikon Photography

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...shoots at 1/90. I've read somewhere that if the camera detects a flash attached to the hotshoe, it will automatically set the cameras shutter speed to 1/90 (the cameras flash sync

Question about Nikon Photography

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off the attached flash. The camera body flash should not fire when you have a flash attached to the hotshoe on the camera. I don't know what kind of flash you are using, since you never said but I use

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