donchua said:Was thinking whether can the Canon A95 fit with a digital slave flash.
If can, how? Any advise?
And any recommendation of cheap & good slave flash ?
If not cheap, what will be the price like?
Thanks.
nightwolf75 said:if u mean mount onto the cam, no. there's no hotshoe on A95, thus cannot take any flash or flash accessories.
however, u can do a search on megaweb's modification on how to use a external flash on a A70. IIRC, he mounted the flash on a stroboframe-like device and pasted a small cardboard on the A70 flash so that the camera flash can be directed upwards, thus triggering the external flash.
Venom81 said:How to modify? I'm very interested to find out for my A85. :think:
Thanks donchua for starting this thread. :thumbsup:
Thanks nightwolf75 for pointing out that A85 can be modify. :thumbsup:
donchua said:Do you have megaweb's site link?
He got show how to do it with his A70.
denniskee said:I have tried megaweb's setup on my dad's casio, but the pre-flash fire the external flash gun. Just like in the case of ETTL flash on canon DSLR, the pre-flash set-off the slave flash thats fitted with optical triggering device.
Does the A70 & A85 use pre-flash for flash metering?
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denniskee said:Hi Climber, do you mean your suntax 9000 slave flash will not be trigger by the pre-flash on your A75 setup?
Climber said:Nope denniskee.... the slave flash that i use is compatible to all digital camera. Coz usually digicam will have the pre-flash for white balance. This preflash can fire once or twice before the actual flash can fire.
None of us can see this preflash coz it is too fast for the naked eye. I think it is like 1/1000th of a second.
The slave flash i use can read this preflash and then fire alongside my camera flash to give a more powerful flash. My A75 will be triggered by the pre flash. And of course you can play with the angles of the flash and give interesting results.
But i'd like to add a point that almost all slave flashes cannot adjust their intensity of the flash, just fyi.
Climber said:hi just to share... my A75 uses 1 pre-flash for metering. I am using a Suntax 9000 series slave flash. bought is 2nd hand for 60. you can search for a kako 9000 series too. same one. works well for me.
donchua said:Just bought a used Kako 9000E at $40.
Tested it with my A95 in P mode using F2 on the flash, happy with the results.
Just that the the flash was fitted on the side of the cam, a bit un-balance
when using my Canon tripod with the QR plate due to the weight of the flash..