Chris T wrote:
One of those Vivitars, RE ... had different dedicated bases - dependent on which camera you were using - be it Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus ...
Don't remember which one it was - perhaps, the 5600 ... not sure ... but dedication for film SLRs - is a bit different, now, with Digital ....
Most of the old-style flash units - won't even FIT on DSLRs ... never mind - mate with the electronics ... so you need a dedicated digital, now ....
I have several older flashes remaining from the film era; every one will physically fit on my digital cameras, but I'm not dumb enough to actually power up them because the voltages would kill my digital cameras.