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Archive 2017 · Mounting to flash hot shoe

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Mounting to flash hot shoe


Please bear with me as I am really new to all of this. I am trying to do widefield astrophotography with a Canon T5i. I want to mount a red dot finder to my camera and purchased a hotshoe adapter to make a mount.

Now for my question.

Is it safe to use a metal hotshoe adapter without shorting something in the hotshoe?

Thanks
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Jan 10, 2017 at 12:10 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Mounting to flash hot shoe


Should be fine. I have some flat, metal shoe-mount gizmos for attaching a smart phone or HDMI screen to the hotshoe. Problems happen when there's a voltage source coming from whatever's mounted on the shoe that exceeds the camera's capacity. Some old-school, third-party flash units had a super-high trigger voltage that could fry a sensitive camera's brains.


Jan 10, 2017 at 02:25 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Mounting to flash hot shoe


Put electrical tape on the bottom of the metal adapter to prevent shorting out anything


Jan 10, 2017 at 08:52 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Mounting to flash hot shoe


Thanks!!!! Why don't I ever think of the very simple solutions? I would have engineered something much more complicated!!!!

Thanks again
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Jan 14, 2017 at 01:35 PM





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