Piers,
I got a T-series shoe cord foot stuck in an M645 prism hot shoe some time
ago. The pins on the bottom of the F280 foot are hung up on the metal
plate that surrounds the center contact on the M645 hot shoe. Be
patient. It took me a while to extract it. I found it impossible to
insert anything under the foot from the back or front of the hot shoe.
Looked at the shoe on my M645 prism to refresh my memory. The metal plate
the flash pins are hung up on is a very thin one that is held in place with
a vertical metal pin at the front of the shoe. IIRC, the first step in the
extraction process required removing the vertical metal pin at the front of
the hot shoe, which allows the plate . . . and your flash . . . to be
backed out of the hot shoe. The silver pin has a slot in the top of it and
can be removed using a small flat-tip jewler's screw driver. [The pin's
other function is keeping a flash foot from sliding too far into the
shoe.] The thin plate has a lip at the front which has to be worked up
over the base of the hot shoe. It also has two u-shaped tabs that hook
over the back of the hot shoe base.
Don't worry about the rest of the M645's hot shoe coming apart on
you. There are other screws under the thin plate that hold it onto the
prism. After you get the flash backed out, slide the plate back into the
hot shoe and replace the pin that holds it in place. Ensure the u-shaped
tabs are properly hooked under the back of the shoe base and that the short
lip on the front end is hooked over the edge of the shoe base.
GL,
-- John
Who doesn't put any T-series flash feet into his M645 any more . . . once
was enough!
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