General Brand PC to Hot Shoe Adapter

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It gets the job done nut it fell apart about 5 minutes after I opened the package. Nothing a little glue couldn't fix, but till...com on.

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Cheap but works really well!

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The shoe is very cheaply made and broke almost immediately after mounting on my camera.

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I use the adapter to connect my radio slaves to my strobes. They do the job, but while there is a standard quarter/twenty mount on the underside of the adapter it isn't designed well enough to hold the weight of a strobe. Reinforce them with superglue or use a sync cord adapter and mount the flash some other way. I broke two, but easily glued them back together.

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I bought one to fire my canon 430ex wireless. It worked as far as connection goes. The construction is very weak and cheaply made. It broke in half and now im stuck with a broken adapter yuck don't buy this.

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Used to have flashes that didn't have a PC jack so I bought a few of these. Waste of time and money. These things are pure junk. Connection is weak to say the least, and trigger rate is about 50%. Either get a more expensive brand, or just do what I did and get strobes with PC jacks and save yourself the headache. DON'T BUY THESE PIECES OF JUNK!!!

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I bought three to link between off-camera flashes and radio triggers.
They began to fail one-by-one within a few uses. They are poorly built. I even had the metal contact plates fall out regularly without any jarring or abuse!
I will be replacing all of them with stronger built (outside), more reliable connections (internal).

It was not smart of me to save a few dollars only to create a weak link between my $$$$ investment of Nikon flashes, sturdy light stands and reliable radio triggers.

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i bought 4 of these, and 2 of them were dead on arrival, [...] Though, these adapters are cheap as cheap can get, only after a couple very light shots the plastic starts to seperate at the seem, sending your flash to the ground.spend a little extra money and get something of higher quality

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After one uses, the entire assembly broke in half along the plastic seam as reported in other reviews. My flash dropped to the ground and luckily survived with just a crack in the plastic.

I wasn't jerking around the light stand with heavy attachments, and it wasn't wear and tear...like I said, I only used the thing once out in the field. The weight of the flash (Vivitar 285HV) alone, without the batteries, was enough to snap the plastic housing. Poor design, or poor materials, I'm not sure which one it is. I was simply moving the light stand two feet inside my apartment and it snapped in half. Buy something else.

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If you just need it to work as an adaptor - it does that just fine. It is very cheaply made, and I have had one lose a part to the hotshoe, but I was able to put it back and still have it work. They will not stand up to much abuse, and I do not trust mounting my flash to the hotshoe and sticking it on a lightstand - seems way too flimsy.

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Overall a flimsy design, although it didn't fall apart catastrophically as has happened to others. The internal wiring has obviously come loose in my unit, rendering it useless, even though I took precautions to relieve the wiring of any stress.

Considering that all this is is a platform for the flash shoe and some wires, I'm amazed at how many utterly incapable products are out there.

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I bought 2 of these. None of them worked. I already had a Hama version that worked with the exact same setup.

Do not buy, guys...!

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I also bought one of these and mounted a flash to it. imounted the item to a tripod using its female 1/4 mount.when i aimed the flash downward (canon 550 ex), the adaptersplit along its seam. luckily i was able to dive and catchthe flash without any damage. i too bought the Hama metal version and i am MUCH happierwith the build quality. you will also need a 1/4 to hotshoeadapter if you want to attach the Hama to a tripod.

Expertise: Very high

Problems Encountered: Very nearly cost me my flash.

Previous Equivalent Item Owned: Tons of light gear and gizmos

Comments about General Brand PC to Hot Shoe Adapter:

I purchased one of these and mounted it on a cheap flash bracket, then put a Canon 580EX on it. As soon as I started to turn the camera so the 580EX was parallel to the ground, the weight of the 580EX split the body of the hot shoe adaptor along its seam. Luckily, the flash was only a foot or so above my desk, so it was not damaged. I'm going to go with the Hama metal model - only $7 more.

Problems Encountered: Cheap build - see review