----- Original Message ----- From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Cc: <andpph@vmsmail.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: Failing shoe mounts on flashes Thank you, Andy. I appreciate knowing I'm not the only one having problems. Marilyn ---------------- > Marilyn, > > I've had several Vivitar 283s experience that "problem". Some were mine and > some were given to me once this failure ocurred. There is a company that makes > metal replacement mounts for the 283 and I bought a couple and have functional > repaired units. Am not sure if anyone makes them for Canon or other flashes. > > One reason that the plastic shoe mounts are installed on the flashes is that > they are cheap. Another is that if the connection were really strong then the > camera body around the mirror housing might break if a strong enough force is > applied to the connection such as by twisting of the flash for some reason. So > to avoid catastrophic failure the weak link breaks instead. Small consolation I > know. > > Andy > > Andrew Davidhazy, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences/RIT > andpph@rit.edu http://www.rit.edu/~andpph > > > > >
