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 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
