AE1 Program with Honeywell Stobonar

[j_woodson]

Would anyone know if the AE1 Program is compatible with a Honeywell Strobonar 770? The strobe works fine with my FTQL. Recently I acquired the AE1 Program with 188 flash, but would like to use the Strobonar with AE1.

 

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Thanks

[david_goldfarb]

Is the Strobonar just an ordinary, non-dedicated flash with one

contact on each side of the shoe for the ground and one in the middle?

If it is, it should work fine on virtually any camera with a hot

shoe, without any dedicated functions.

[roger_broadbent1]

> If it is, it should work fine on virtually any camera with a hot

shoe, without any dedicated functions.

 

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Almost true, BUT.

 

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Some older flashes produce very high voltages across their contacts.

High enough to fry the brains of poor delicate modern electronic

cameras.

 

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The AE1P is an electronic camera, although how delicate I don't know.

 

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I have read that you can get some kind of intermediate device that

reduces the voltages, but I don't know any more than that I'm afraid.

[j_woodson]

Thanks for your anwers.

 

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Actually the Strobonar mounts on a bracket that attaches to the

camera connecting with a cable to fire it. There are not any contact

points and I'm not sure what the voltage is. It works fine with my

FTQL and my Rolleiflex, but just not sure about the AE 1 Program yet.

[david_goldfarb]

If you're worried about the potential trigger voltage issue, Wein

makes a device called the "Safe Sync." The model you would want would

be the hot shoe version, then you plug the PC cord from your Strobonar

into a PC socket on the Wein.

 

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That said, I doubt this would be a problem. The AE-1P doesn't have

any sophisticated sync or TTL metering capabilities like some new

cameras, so I can't imagine what electronics would be involved.