What is your experience with the durability of the Canon off-camera shoe cord? I've been using mine for a couple of months and the shoe connection on the cord is starting to get very loose. The flash has a slight 'give' both left/right and forward/backward. Is there a simple way to tighten it. The connection from the flash to the cord is very tight... it's the shoe that's wiggling.
You need to remove all three screws from the bottom of the shoe, which will take pressure off the black insert between the contacts and the shoe itself. Then you can work the insert out of the shoe -- pick up the front end (center) of it while moving its front corner tabs down, which will unlock it, allow you to pull the insert out the back and expose the 4 screws that need to be tightened and sealed to tighten up the shoe.
You can also do a search -- I learned it here about six months ago.
Steve_T90 wrote:
You need to remove all three screws from the bottom of the shoe, which will take pressure off the black insert between the contacts and the shoe itself. Then you can work the insert out of the shoe -- pick up the front end (center) of it while moving its front corner tabs down, which will unlock it, allow you to pull the insert out the back and expose the 4 screws that need to be tightened and sealed to tighten up the shoe.
You can also do a search -- I learned it here about six months ago.
Thanks for the info, I did a search, but the keywords I used didn't come up with anything...I removed the three screws, but not exactly sure how you are explaining the part about removing the shoe...it doesn't seem to want to budge at all...
The shoe itself won't come off at this point, but there is a black insert, surrounding the shoe contacts, that will. The insert covers the screws you need to tighten to fix the shoe. The insert has three tabs at the front of it (you can't see them yet); the two on either side lock upward against the front of the shoe (just ahead of where the foot would rest). The middle tab locks downward against the front center of the shoe.
Try working a thin screwdriver inside the shoe, along the edges, to pry either side of the insert's outer tabs downward, one at a time. Then slide the insert back and out. If I have time later today I'll try to upload a photo.
Got it! Funny how simple things are once you 've finally done it...Thanks for the help! Gotta be carefully on tightening those screws... the head appears pretty easy to strip...
BTW, can anyone help me find four new screws for this cord? I'd like to fix my very first cord from over ten years ago -- I bought three of these things before I learned how to fix them! -- and while I have all the parts, I've lost all four screws holding the shoe down. Where do you go to get these tiny screws?
BTW, can anyone help me find four new screws for this cord? I'd like to fix my very first cord from over ten years ago -- I bought three of these things before I learned how to fix them! -- and while I have all the parts, I've lost all four screws holding the shoe down. Where do you go to get these tiny screws?
On a somewhat related note...can the 580ex flash be tightened so that the positions between straight up and straight forward are more solid? With the LSPJ diffuser, and angled position - the weight of the LSPJ pulls it down to foward position.
I personally haven't used mine since I got my ST-E2, but I'll definitely bookmark this too.