Wein Sapata Safe-Sync para Sapata (SSHSHS)

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

It's extremely easy to use. You just connect it to your camera and put your flash on top of it.

The Safe-Sync will automatically regulate the voltage so that your camera is safe.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

I bought one some years ago to use with my Canon 300D and it works fine with that.
I have just upgraded to a Canon 550D and it refuses to work with that. I think Canon somehow detect it isn't one of their flashguns and the camera refuses to work it. It does the same non recognition with a very old basic flashgun and won't fire it.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Works exactly as described which is important as I have a Professional Studio.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Always a great product, very durable and trustworthy. I always know this will work when I need it to.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

The hot shoe adapter works excellently on my Vivitar 283 flash and now I can make better use of my digital camera.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Okay, I have a lot of really powerful old flash units. I knew how to use them with film cameras and intend to use them with my Digital SLR. I researched that my Nikon would probably work fine with these old flashes, but.... I'd rather be safe. Yeah, I'm like that. The SSHSHS works fine. It is a quality built and engineered unit. I feel good using these old flashes instead of trashing them. You would too.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Well made has fired everytime

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Hooked it up and it worked right away. It has been a great product!

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Does the job and protects my equipment what more can you ask.....

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

I use it with a Canon 400D and a flash
Metz 60 CT1 and works fine
I would recommend it

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

I am able to use a 20 year old flash (that is like new) with my Canon Rebel XTI Digital SLR camera and greatly extend its flash capabilities. Love the hot shoe.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Nice, robust design, but it does not work with the Nikon D7000 hot-shoe. Will require some design modification before it's ready for the new cameras.

PC connector very tight fit with cable. Can easily pull off.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

I use this piece on my DSLR when using my portrait lighting. It plugs into the shoe mount on top and is then connected by a long cord to the light. Especially nice so that in case there was a power surge, it won't fry my camera.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Every photographer who wants to use their old flash guns which are giving remarkable results in their history, Wein Safe-Sync can safely marry those flashguns to their latest high cost DSLRs or even video cameras.

This product is not even heard by many of the photography equipment re-sellers in India and even the most of Professional photographers.

This is an excellent product which can make use of our legendary flashguns which are suppose to be showcased in our antique collections.

Price is nominal to afford in place of buying a dedicated flashguns.

I am highly recommending this product who really wants to use their old flashguns.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

It works, can't ask for more!

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

This is a great unit everything everyone says about it is true. It's well built, and as far as I can tell reliable. The trigger button on the side is a great bonus.

It does have a couple of quirks though.

The PC female connector is oversized, which creates a nice tight fit with your PC male cable (which you can keep tight with a good PC tip conditioner).

It's also a very tight fit in your hotshoe. Rather than a locking collar, it has an oversized button on the bottom that makes contact with the center dot of your camera's hotshoe.

Lastly, it has (and you can see this in the picture) a metal foil cover across the bottom of the female hotshoe area - which you would use to put your on-camera speedlight.

I guess they designed this to work with older non-voltage safe flashes and didn't anticipate that I'd like to use my Nikon SB-600 on camera, with another flash off-camera (via the sync cable) because the SB-600 has all these extra contacts on the bottom (for sending TTL information etc. I'm sure), and they short on the metal foil. Twice I've put my SB-600 on it only to have it going off randomly several times a second, and then eventually freeze- yeah, freeze. None of the buttons work & I have to take the batteries out & put them back in again for it to 'reboot'. To make matter worse, the Nikon locking mechanism is a little pin that drops down from the flash into a dot in the flash- well the Wein doesn't have the flash, so all this pin does is push the flash further away from the contacts making it even more schizophrenic.

The unit works beautifully with an older (non-smart) flash like a Vivitar 285HV (and thanks to the safe sync, non-HV too), but the hot shoe doesn't work at all with my Nikon flash (and presumably Canon flashes too).

This complaint aside, it's an excellent unit. Well made & while I've never tested it with a high voltage flash, it triggers consistently & the test button on the side is great. I love that I can have an on-camera flash & one on a stand on my cameras that don't have a built in PC port. It's the next best thing two having two flashes on two stands.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Great little adapter. A little pricier than your regular adapters but definitely worth the peace of mind knowing you won't turn your camera into a doorstop. I don't shoot without it.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

Small, lightweight, effecient, inexpensive

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

I purchased my first Safe Sync on the advice of a camera shop in Portland, Oregon. Up unitl then I was not aware that digital cameras used flash units with less voltage to fire a flash. And that my older flash units put out too much voltage and can damage a digital camera. I recently sold that flash unit and replaced it with a studio type unit. Although the manufactur's tech rep indicated that their units put out only 6v., I decided better be safe than sorry! I purchased my second Safe-Sync from B&H. Although the price was no lower than Portland's, I did save gas and at least three hours messing around in busy Portland! I now have piece of mine and in the event my new studio flash malfunctioned in the amount of voltage, I have a second line of defense that is cheaper than a camera repair.

Comments about Wein Safe-Sync Hot Shoe to Hot Shoe High Voltage Sync Regulator (SSHSHS):

We use the Safe-Syncs on our digital cameras with our trusty old Vivitar 283s. The first one gave out after 3+ years of service and the other after about a year. Our use of the digital equipment and the Safe-Syncs increased quite a bit this last year, which I assume explains the second one's speedier demise. I also assume that the Safe-Syncs fail after a certain amount of use because of the high voltages that they absorb in protecting the camera. Better that they get destroyed than the cameras.