x100 with external flash question

<p>Hello,<br>

<br />I have the Fuji x100 and want to begin using a synched external flash. I've looked all over but cannot find a strait recommendation for a compatible sync cord to use with the flash unit. I have the EF-42 already as my flash but was hoping someone could give me some advice as to what sync cord and other connectors to buy in order to use this flash externally.</p>

<p>Also, if you have any recommendations on more straightforward flash units to use, that would be helpful, i really just want to shoot manual and need a straightforward set up that works with this camera. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

 

<p>You could try a simple hotshoe to P-C socket converter and put the camera into manual mode. According to the manual (page 100) you simply set the "external flash" menu option to "on" to enable a 3rd party flash in the hotshoe. The EF-42 should couple with a hotshoe extender cable, but where you'd find a fuji compatible one I don't know.</p>

<p>A safer (for the camera) alternative to a hotshoe P-C adapter is to use a radio trigger kit. These are available very cheaply as a simple transmitter that fits in the hotshoe, and one or more receivers that couple to the flash(es). I find that a setup like that with the camera set to manual and a shutter speed of 1/200th second works OK with Canon and Nikon DSLRs, but YMMV.</p>

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Any sync cord with a pin in the middle of the shoe will work for manual triggering. I use my Nikon iTTL cord, a custom 30

ft model to trigger up to 1/4000 sync speeds. I have also used pocket wizard plus III to trigger up to around 1/1200.

 

Flash zebra sells manual cords for triggering and any store will sell a third party cord for TTL work.

 

Hope this helps.

<p>Thanks Wally, that does help, I'm looking at the SC28 or the Nisson SC01. They seem to work with the x100, but I just want to make sure they would also work with the EF-42 torch. Any thoughts on which would be better or if they would both be options?</p>

<p>You'll only get TTL flash exposure with a compatible extender cable. Almost any other make of hotshoe extender will fire the flash OK, but that particular arrangement of 3 pins to communicate TTL information between camera and flash looks unique to Fuji.</p>

<p>You might want to read <a href="http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/forum/3/564495">this thread here</a> right down to the bottom. Seems if you're handy with a soldering iron you can make a Fuji compatible extender out of a Canon one. I don't know what Fuji are thinking not providing accessories for their own cameras!</p>

<p>BTW, Nikon's 3 pins are in a completely different place from Canon's 4 and Fuji's 3, so I'm not sure how that last poster to the linked thread made it work!?</p>

<p>One way to do it is to trigger slave flashes with the internal flash. <a href="

<p>forget about ttl.</p>