Recommend compact flash with pc cord

[knj]

Any recommendation for small electronic flash with pc cord to use with old cameras such as stereo realist and vintage 120 folders. Using a vivitar 283 but kind of big and bulky . I worry about stress on some tiny screws and threads. Will use mostly with 100-400 film for snapshots of people.

Regards

ken

 

[madNbad]

Look for a Vivitar 2800 or similar. I have a 253 that I bought years ago for five dollars. I takes a nine volt battery and is always in my bag. I would like to have something with an adjustable reflector but haven’t been in a hurry to find one.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Any recommendation for small electronic flash with pc cord to use with old cameras such as stereo realist and vintage 120 folders. Using a vivitar 283 but kind of big and bulky . I worry about stress on some tiny screws and threads. Will use mostly with 100-400 film for snapshots of people.

Regards

ken

the Vivitar 283 has a fairly high trigger voltage and will, over time, ruin the camera trigger contacts. I recommend any modern brand-name electronic flash, which will have a trigger voltage below 5V. Your target film speed range and your genre demands nothing special; just go for one with an automatic exposure function, so you are not held back by in-field calculations. most have that anyway. good shopping.

 

[BobUK]

"the Vivitar 283 has a fairly high trigger voltage and will, over time, ruin the camera trigger contacts. I recommend any modern brand-name electronic flash, which will have a trigger voltage below 5V. Your target film speed range and your genre demands nothing special; just go for one with an automatic exposure function, so you are not held back by in-field calculations. most have that anyway. good shopping."




Two or three years ago I found a web page listing various cameras with their flash contact ratings.
Unfortunately the laptop that I had it bookmarked on expired and subsequently went to silicon heaven.
I searched for the web page about a year ago, but still could not find it again.

Does anyone remember the web article I am talking about, and could they put a link on here if it is still working?

Thank you in advance if you do know.

 

[Chan Tran]

"the Vivitar 283 has a fairly high trigger voltage and will, over time, ruin the camera trigger contacts. I recommend any modern brand-name electronic flash, which will have a trigger voltage below 5V. Your target film speed range and your genre demands nothing special; just go for one with an automatic exposure function, so you are not held back by in-field calculations. most have that anyway. good shopping."




Two or three years ago I found a web page listing various cameras with their flash contact ratings.
Unfortunately the laptop that I had it bookmarked on expired and subsequently went to silicon heaven.
I searched for the web page about a year ago, but still could not find it again.

Does anyone remember the web article I am talking about, and could they put a link on here if it is still working?

Thank you in advance if you do know.

The old cameras like the ones the OP uses their sync contact rating should be high enough. Still because they are dry contact (metal to metal switch) they would go bad over time but it would take a long long time. Modern cameras have solid state switches which won't wear out but limited to certain voltage. Too high voltage can damage them immediately.

 

[xkaes]

Any recommendation for small electronic flash with pc cord to use with old cameras such as stereo realist and vintage 120 folders. Using a vivitar 283 but kind of big and bulky . I worry about stress on some tiny screws and threads. Will use mostly with 100-400 film for snapshots of people.

Regards

ken

I'm a 283 lover and they are large -- but powerful. There is a direct correlation between power and size. You need to determine how much power (GUIDE NUMBER) you need. Then find a flash with that GN (or lower) and the features you want -- Auto-exposure? Tilting? Batteries -- type & number? Hot shoe? Etc.

This page might give you some ideas.

http://www.subclub.org/minman/flashes.htm

 

[Rick A]

The mount on top of older cameras is not necessarily a "cold shoe" but actually called an accessory shoe for mounting range finders or light meters, and not all are sized alike. I recommend an off the camera flash mounting handle. The OP can PM me and I'll ship a folding one that mounts to the bottom of the camera for the price of postage. I used these for mounting flashes to my Olympus OM-1's and old folding 120's.

 

[MattKing]

"the Vivitar 283 has a fairly high trigger voltage...."

Two or three years ago I found a web page listing various cameras with their flash contact ratings.
Unfortunately the laptop that I had it bookmarked on expired and subsequently went to silicon heaven.

Does anyone remember the web article I am talking about, and could they put a link on here if it is still working?

Photo Strobe Trigger Voltages
https://www.botzilla.com/page/strobeVolts.html

Note the warning about updates

 

[BobUK]

MattKing

I think that is the page I was looking for.
My addled memory had it that I was looking for the camera contact ratings. Probably the reason why my searches turned up nothing.
I now have it in the favourites and stored in a separate memory drive.

Many Thanks Matt.