Well I like the idea that my flashes will work with manual focus film
cameras and autofocus digital cameras, at least to some extent. Now
designing an flash shoe that has superior mounting characteristics and
is backward compatible would work for me.
Mark Erickson wrote:
> Well,
>
> There you go. Every company has customized their flash interfaces so that,
> in practice, there is no such thing as a "universal" flash mount, anyway.
> Why not move to something better? Is anyone here so invested in their
> "classic" flashes that they'll be crushed if they can't use a flash designed
> in 1984 on a 2008 digital camera?
>
> Anyway, I still believe that designing a flash locking pin mechanism that
> easily breaks in a "stuck" position is really poor engineering. Makes me
> look at the mechanism on my 360FGZ with concern.
>
> Adam Maas adam at mawz.ca wrote:
>
>> The problem is the lock pin is stuck, which is the engineering hack
>> that Pentax and Nikon both have used to solve the problem that the ISO
>> hotshoe simply isn't capable of holding a flash safely. The solution
>> is to abandon the archaic and poorly designed ISO flash shoe (which
>> was never intended to hold flashes in the first place, it was designed
>> to hold viewfinders back in 1921). Minolta got this right with the
>> 7000i and has been pilloried for it ever since, but their shoe is far
>> more reliable and mechanically superiori to the ISO shoe.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>> On 1/27/08, Mark Erickson <mark at westerickson.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Attention Pentax Engineers: If you're reading this, you should be
>>>
> ASHAMED
>
>>> for letting a product with this failure mode go out the door. ASHAMED.
>>> Designing any kind of locking mechanism that can break in a "locked"
>>> position is just plain bad engineering.
>>>
>>> --Mark
>>>
>>> Paul Stenquist pnstenquist at comcast.net
>>>
>>>> Yes, it's true. I mounted the 540 flash on the K10D this afternoon in
>>>> an effort to shoot some birdies, and now it won't come off. I tried a
>>>> little bit of WD40 ( a light lubricant), lots of tugging and pulling.
>>>> I'm guessing that a screw has come loose on the hot shoe and is
>>>> locking it in place. Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm going to have to
>>>> send camera and flash to Pentax. A pisser.
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>
>
>
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