Hot shoe vs cold shoe
Sep 22, 2020 07:52:59 #
dickparkans wrote:
Most digital cameras have a hot shot mount for a flash. If you install a cold shoe made out of metal, will you short out the electronics? Looking for something to attach a laser pointer to, so I can point the camera in the right direction for star photography.
You will have no problems at all as the hot shoe contacts are recessed. Thats is exactly why all flash units have spring loaded, pointed contacts. A flat metal cold shoe will NOT short your camera, never has, never will. Only idiots will tell you that will happen.
Sep 22, 2020 08:40:40 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
dickparkans wrote:
Most digital cameras have a hot shot mount for a flash. If you install a cold shoe made out of metal, will you short out the electronics? Looking for something to attach a laser pointer to, so I can point the camera in the right direction for star photography.
The metal on the cold shoe should not make contact with the contacts on the hot shoe. Most flash units designed for your camera come with little nubs that stick out from the bottom of the flash shoe that will make contact with the contacts on the hot shoe.
The cold shoe does not have these projections and will not therefore make contact with those on the hot shoe. Mount with confidence.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.
Sep 22, 2020 08:47:41 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
MT Shooter wrote:
You will have no problems at all as the hot shoe contacts are recessed. Thats is exactly why all flash units have spring loaded, pointed contacts. A flat metal cold shoe will NOT short your camera, never has, never will. Only idiots will tell you that will happen.
Well expressed! It should be obvious to anyone who bothers to look at the shoe and foot.
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Sep 22, 2020 11:44:01 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
I bought a couple of cold shoe mounts with plastic feet on e-bay a number of years ago. I have no idea where they are now because I seldom used them after I bought my yong nuo flash triggers and receivers.
Sep 22, 2020 12:02:31 #
petrochemist wrote:
A cold shoe is the same size as a hot shoe but has no electrical contacts. They are often fitted to clamps etc that are intended to support flash units off camera, or field monitors etc.
Thank you for the explanation.
Sep 25, 2020 15:43:29 #
Thank you everybody who responded. Your help and advice was appreciated very much. I will take your ideas and combine them. Hopefully, I can get the star pictures I am looking for.
Sep 25, 2020 15:50:28 #
MT Shooter wrote:
You will have no problems at all as the hot shoe contacts are recessed. Thats is exactly why all flash units have spring loaded, pointed contacts. A flat metal cold shoe will NOT short your camera, never has, never will. Only idiots will tell you that will happen.
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