Help me, smart people!What flash compatible with RZ67ProII hotshoe?

[Holly]

Hi all
urgently need an answer to this:

exactly what flash units can be used on the RZ67 Pro II
hotshoe? i have used a metz with a flash sync cord no worries.
but can i put other brand electronic units such as canon speedlite
on the hotshoe or is it a different size and only a metz will fit?
i am away from all my equipment at present, and can't tell by
looking at the hotshoe what flash units it might be able to handle.
help!
thanks.
-Holly

 

[Ian Grant]

Flash shoes are all the same size, but the extra functions of some cameras/flashes use additional contacts. Your Speed light will work fine.

Ian

 

[Thomas Wilson]

Holly,
A hotshoe is a hotshoe, except for some of the older Nikon F - F3 models, which were located over the film rewind crank.

What's wrong with the Metz?
That would be my first suggestion if you were asking for a recommendation for a flash for your RZ.

You can mount a Canon, Nikon (non F), or any flash with a standard shoe. You will have the choice of full manual or "Auto" operation (sensor on flash), but will not have any TTL functions.

Because you were using the Metz with sync cord (no TTL) with "No worries," you should have no difficulties.

 

[Holly]

yeah my metz is broken! dammit
so i'm forced to use a different flash, and i have access to a speedlite for sure,
and as a starving art school student it's all about borrowing whatever will do the job, sadly.
i just thought the canon flashes, speedlites in partic, were dedicated for Eos cameras?
do i NOT need some kind of hotshoe adapter to put a crappy little electronic flash on RZ?

 

[Thomas Wilson]

I'm guessing that you have one of the bigger, off-camera Metz units. You can pick up an off camera flash bracket (stroboframe is an example) that will let you mount a standard shoe flash and sync via cord.

Is your Metz broken physically or has it just ceased firing?

 

[Holly]

well its something to do with the battery pack. i think what it is, my school is too cheap to
fork out for a new set of recharchable batteries or just a new metz in general! so it could
work very well if it had the battery pack fixed. and yes it is the big off-camera kind.
i am going to have a play with a hotshoe adaptor and the little canon flash tonight and
see what happens.

 

[xtolsniffer]

If you have a rechargeable battery pack and that has died (they do after a time), you can get fairly cheaply an adaptor that lets you put standard AA batteries into it. I have one of these for my Metz CL-4. You might find that smaller flashes are seriously underpowered compared to the Metz.

 

[Lopaka]

Any flash unit will work on an RZ in manual mode. The main problem with using Cannon dedicated units on manual cameras is the Cannon goes to 'sleep' to conserve battery power and is designed to be 'revived' for shooting by pressing the Cannon shutter button half-way. There is no way a manual camera like RZ can do this, and you end up resorting to turning the flash unit switch off and back on.

Bob

 

[2F/2F]

Any flash unit will work on an RZ in manual mode. The main problem with using Cannon dedicated units on manual cameras is the Cannon goes to 'sleep' to conserve battery power and is designed to be 'revived' for shooting by pressing the Cannon shutter button half-way. There is no way a manual camera like RZ can do this, and you end up resorting to turning the flash unit switch off and back on.

Bob

Indeed. One of my bosses uses Canon 430s for location lighting. I wish she just had Sunpak 383s instead, as I am always running back and forth making sure the 430s are still on. There should be an option to turn the power saving feature off.

However, the 430s do recycle very quickly and also take quite some time to eat through a set of batteries. I can't say the same for my Sunpaks.