Dan Mitchell wrote:
>Maybe I'm just missing something, but what's the PC connector good for?
>
Back when many of us started photography, the PC connecter was the only
way flashes connected to cameras. And a big convenience improvement it
was over the several other non-standardized connectors that preceded it.
The flashes used one shot bulbs and connected to a PC connector right on
the shutter of many cameras and the bodies of others. When electronic
flashes appeared, they too all had a wire dangling out with a PC
connector on the end. A few manufacturers, Rollei was one, had special
versions of the PC connector that were less liable to get loose and
simply fall off at inopportune times.
Hot shoes were a great innovation, still just a contact to fire the
flash, no communication, but no wires in the way. First implementations
were often odd. The Nik*n F had a thingie that slipped over the rewind
crank to hold the flash.
>Is it only intended for great big studio lights or something? I was
>expecting that I'd be able to use that as a way of getting off-camera
>flash -- I'd have to set all the exposure/flash up by hand because all
>it would do is trigger the flash,
>
Not all that long ago, that was the only way...
Moose
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