10 February 2020

Gone In A Flash

And I still have yet to buy a flash for the hot-shoe...

I will soon have a Canon EOS M-50, some power accessories, the EF-S to EF-M adaptor and a 55-250mm EF-S lens.

And that wipes out what I've saved for a camera this past...  Long time.

It should all get here in time for The Boy's area games for bicycling!

Fingers crossed!

I also need to hit Wal Mart for a memory card.
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3 comments:

  1. SofwareJanitor11 February, 2020 00:13

    I've got two Pentax K10D (obsolete by today's standards). One of them I have a nice ProMaster flash for. It's got adjustments, swivel, etc. The other I've got the cheap Vivitar flash that I've had since I bought it for a 35mm film camera (Fujica AX3) back in the 1990s. One nice thing about the Pentax digitals is that they use the same lens mount that Pentax has used back into the early 1970s, albeit you only get autofocus and the other features on the newer lenses. But the cameras will accept any of the old ones if you are willing to manual focus.

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    1. Angus McThag11 February, 2020 01:21

      The M50 uses the EF-M mount. With the adaptor you can use any EF or EF-S lens going back to 1987.

      You might not get autofocus or stabilization with an old EF, but you can take pictures.

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  2. SiGraybeard11 February, 2020 10:04

    I've gone through a few EF-S cameras and now have a T6i, which I got over a year ago as a refurb from Canon. I had always bought second source flashes - meaning not Canon but Vivitar (had a 283 for 30 something years that still worked great) or another alternative brand. Vivitar today isn't even a shadow of the 1970s Vivitar, which made very good photography products. I bought a Sigma for the previous Canon and never even thought there was a possibility it wouldn't work. It didn't.

    Canon changed something about the interface between the camera and the flash. Not a simple hot shoe with one contact to fire the flash, there's 5 contacts between them. I had to buy a new flash, but stuck with Sigma and sold the old one on eBay which cut the out of pocket cost.

    Conclusion: the Sigma works great on this camera, but it may be that if I get another camera in another 10 years I'll need to get a new flash. Canon may support older Speedlites, but I don't know they swear they will. The worst thing that happens if we get a second source flash is needing to get a new flash if we have to get a new camera.

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