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Question: how exactly does a hot shoe flash work?

im new to photography so sorry if thats a silly question, ive got a cannon eos 1000d and would like to take some indoor photos,
and will one like this fit the camera?

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Answer: The hotshoe is basically a connector that connects the firing circuit of the flash to the trigger circuit located in the camera body. There is a mechanism in the camera that “makes” or shorts together at the correct time during the shutters travel(when shutter is fully open). This mechanism’s closing in reality conects the flash’s center (hot) pin to the rest of the foot(ground) to complete the electrical circuit to fire the flash. Basic electricity. the mechanism in the camera body of newer electronic models can get complicated.

Specific manufacturers have different circuitry and unless you get a “matched” flash then there is a chance that you will blow the cameras electrics – most especially on todays digital cameras.
Also older flash guns have different power and circuitry and again could cause problems on modern digital cameras.

The one you have linked to is a Minolta flash and would not work properly with a Canon (not cannon) camera.

There are independent flash makers who make guns for different camera brands i.e. Metz and Quantum. Just ensure you get one that is correct for your camera brand/model.

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Question: Tips & Tricks for using the hot shoe flash on a Nikon D80?

Shooting at a vfw hall. For the first time with a flash the hot shoe on my Nikon D80. The flash is a Promaster 7500DX. I will be shooting moving and still images. I do not need tips, hints, tips, beginners might help. I am very familiar with my Nikon D80, just a beginner flash photog. Thank you very much! The place I am with the shooting stand had a VFW Hall. There is a hall for weddings.

Answer: From the, what I've seen that a decent flash, and I'm sure you know, much less expensive than a Nikon unit. Indoors Like you, I will always shoot in shutter priority mode. Place a rate of approximately 1 / 40. This will be even more ambient light in the scene. Your flash is then generally be used as a fill light unit. Let the camera choose the aperture. If you have a good, fast lens, you can lower ISO values, which the Use around ISO 200 or 300 If your lens is the kit lens, you probably need your ISO 800 in the area. Some spread is really needed on the flash to soften the harsh light and sharp, black shadow, which deals with direct flash. The Stöfen Omni Bounce is the simplest, smallest, and not to use a fair job. So that you tilt the flash head at 45 degree angle at all times. My favorite is the Gary Fong Lightsphere diffuser. This is beautiful, soft, even light, but is quite large and somewhat cumbersome, if you are not used. Although the lens through the automatic exposure control is to give you proper flash exposures, you will often add 1 to the EV power on the flash, when using a diffuser. Frankly, the best thing you can do is a lot of practice. Once you meet some good exposure time, ISO and flash EV compensation settings You should go well in almost any indoor situation. Oh, and in most cases, you set your white balance FLASH you more brilliant colors, but I hope to be They shoot in RAW, so you can customize any / optimize white balance in post processing if necessary. Still, the less you need for recording do, the better. Again, this is something you need to experiment. The auto white balance setting may or may not be better with your camera / flash combination. Steve EDIT: The answer came to me like my input. You'll notice we are telling you to do two different things, ie to tell him use aperture priority to tell me to use Shutter Priority. We are both correct. As he said, it really all depends on the look you want and the conditions. I shot mainly indoor weddings with my flash / Diffuser setup so I had to ambient light in the church, to show in my photographs. Yes, sometimes there are some color themes, but I have a frosted amber dome with my Gary Fong Lightsphere compensate help indoor and flash. Even with the camera flash is another art in itself. We give you tips and tell you how we do it / it done, but you are really want to experiment and learn much of this on your own and apply to your photography, such as learning how your camera is best for your purposes.

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