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[OM] Re: Best Flash for the E-series

Subject: [OM] Re: Best Flash for the E-series
From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:45:00 -0600
Hans van Veluwen wrote:
> Well, you're lucky nothing went wrong. The E-300 manual contains a
> serious warning against using dedicated flashes not built for the
> E-system (I suppose it also applies to the E-1 and E-500) on the page
> 'Non-specified commercial flashes':

  Heh, I guess you're right -- I figured setting the flash onto either 
manual power or telling the flash to control itself would stop any 
signals getting sent 'outside' that might confuse the camera, and it 
seems to be okay.

  Looking at the physical positions of the contacts, there doesn't seem 
to be any matches between those on a T32 and those on an FL-50 -- on the 
other hand, Canon flashes seem to have four extra terminals in a little 
square 'behind' the central one, of which three would match up with the 
E-1's connections, and so using a Canon flash on an E-1 would probably 
be a bad idea. (on the upside, I'd guess that Canon off-camera hot shoe 
cords ought to work with an E-1)

  -- dan

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