Recently a user on PBase asked me how I attached my Canon XT to the studio lights since the XT does not have a hot-shoe plug. I explained that I use an old hot-shoe adapter that actually slides onto the flash bracket on the camera and attaches to the studio lights. This is an old (25+ years?) adapter that I began using in the 80’s. A word of warning from Canon though - the electronics of the new digital cameras are somewhat fragile, and per Canon they are susceptible to “back-fire” from a flash. Using this device can potentially fry the electronics of the camera. They advise using what is known as a “safe sync”, which is a wireless sync device that attaches to the camera in the same way and fires the lights wirelessly. With modern equipment that’s working properly though, you should not have any problem. I only fire my main light with this device and use the on-board optical flash sync of the other flashes to fire all the other flashes from the firing of the main light. After over 5,000 flash-firing photographs, I have never had a single problem.

Here you see my camera set up with the Canon 70 – 200 mm L zoom lens with the attached flash adapter. The photograph was take with my old Sony “point and shoot’ digital camera.

“Use it up, wear it out,
Make it do or do without.”
Hey, it’s a guy thing.


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