Using adapters to fire a remote hot shoe only flash. Help!

7 years 1 week ago #523655 by ricklb55
Wanting to use my three hot shoe only electronic flashes while not attached to a camera's hot shoe I thought a hot shoe adapter would be
the trick, so I acquired a used Hama Hot Shoe Adapter from Ebay, and
when that didn't work, a new Medalight Hot Shoe to PC Adapter from
B&H. These adapters do not work either way: when mounted to a hot
shoe to fire a separately mounted flash (not really what I wanted) or
when mounted on a remote flash to receive a flash signal from the
camera, either via hot shoe by way of a Nikon AS-15 adapter or PC synch
cord. My flash units all work when not using the Hama or Medalight
adapters. The Nikon AS-15 works when not using the adapters. It's
difficult to believe I received two broken adpaters. My flashes are a
Sunpak 544 (no hot shoe), a Promaster FTD 5700 with a Canon base, an
Automatic 17-A, and a Diana flash. Am I missing something? Rick


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7 years 6 days ago #524061 by Fess Walker
Have you looked at Pocket Wizard set up?


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