Originally Posted by dantuyhoa
Mike
Thanks for the advice on the trigger . The last few months I was busy with work but I managed to get the remote and the hotshoe adapter . Searching for a hotshoe adapter with PC was quite an adventure in itself . Trying to tell people about the PC connector is like admitting you saw an UFO !
Anyway I can't wait till playing with it .
Tran
I had the same experience at a large camera/electronics store here. I almost never got the sales lady to understand what the hell a pc adapter is. I finally realized that if I didn't see it myself on the shelf, then they didn't have it. The hotshoe to male pc connector (as for mounting a flash) are easy to find here, and I have about four of them. The hotshoe to female adapter (for mounting on the camera) are IMPOSSIBLE to find via normal stores here in Japan. I had to import one from China (Gadget Infinity), and when it arrived it didn't work. I had to take it apart and fiddle with all the connections to make it operational. And it has a high plastic flange around the top which makes it impossible to mount a remote radio trigger. I'm going to have to buy a file and file down the plastic flush with the top of the mount. Fortunately, I was able to modify my radio receiver to improve reliability from a dismal 25~40% to nearly 100%. The trick is to not use the pc connector on the receiver. Instead I cut off the phono plug and cut off the pc connector of the hotshoe adapter and directly soldered them together into a single unit.