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Seagull SC 5 Hot Shoe Flash Adapter to PC and Standard Hot Shoes for Sony Alpha Minolta Maxxum Cameras

Seagull SC-5 hot shoe adapter is designed to connect all standard shoe flashes to the proprietary Sony Alpha / Minolta Maxxum hot shoes. This adapter will allow you to use any flash or accessory having a standard flash shoe with Sony Alpha / Minolta Maxxum cameras, including digital & film series. This adapter is fully compatible to work with all Sony Alpha & Konica Minolta Maxxum SLR Cameras.

It also allow to trigger external flash with PC sync cord similar to the more expensive Sony FAST1AM Sony Sync Terminal Adapter and Konica Minolta Maxxum FS-1100 PLUS. Provides PC sync socket for cameras that doesn’t have it.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Doesn’t work
I bought one to use on my Minolta Dimage Z1 and have yet to get it to work. The problem I suspect is with the camera as the flash will fire when I touch the correct copntacts on the adaptor. I wanted to use an external flash that I already have rather than buy a new one. May just buy another camera of another brand.

4 Stars Small, cheap, effective
Sony do a lot of things write when it comes to DSLR, but that Minolta hot-shoe attachment can be a real pain when you’re working in a studio and trying to fire off a bunch of studio flashes.

The Sony answer comes at a hefty price… this version is simpler, smaller, cheaper and just as effective. Simple to use, universally accepted (so far) and small (a previous, borrowed version had cut into my cheek) this was as good a buy as I’ve made this year

3 Stars didn’t work with my flash
I was trying to use an older flash and it wouldn’t work with it. I returned it because since I had to buy a flash, I will get a minolta compatible one.

Cost me a total of $13.00 shipping because I had to pay both ways.

1 Star Doesn’t work with A100
The hot shoe appears to fit, but neither the PC terminal nor hot shoe will fire two different standard flashes. Might be OK with automated flashes, but my old Vivitar’s don’t fire.

4 Stars Works Great
The Seagull SC-5 Hotshoe adapter works just as well as the Sony/Minolta adapter. For a whole lot less money.

Processing and shipping of the item could have been a little quicker

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