Hot shoe
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A hot shoe is a mounting point on the top of a camera to attach a flash unit and other compatible accessories. It takes the form of an angled metal bracket surrounding a metal contact point which comp
Canon EOS 350D Hot shoe
Proprietary hot shoe used by Minolta and older Sony cameras (Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D)
Minolta SRT101 accessory shoe without electrical function (cold shoe)
IISO flash shoe
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iISO flash shoe is the unofficial name for the proprietary accessory flash attachment and control interface used on Minolta cameras since the i-series introduced in 1988, and subsequently Konica Minol
Hot shoe
…Canon, Nikon, Olympus, and Pentax use the standard ISO hot shoe with various proprietary electronic extensions. In 1988 Minolta switched to use a 4-pin proprietary slide-on auto-lock "iISO" connector. A compatible 7-pin variant, which allows battery-less accessories to be powered by the camera's battery were also made, but not widely used. Konica…
Minolta/Sony iISO flash shoe - Minolta Maxxum 9 specimen pictured
Pre-1985 Minolta ISO 518 hot-shoe - Minolta X-500/X-570 specimen pictured
Hotshoe connection of Sony HVL-F42AM flash.