{"id":6587,"date":"2014-10-08T23:28:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2014-11-23T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T04:25:12","slug":"adding-a-pc-sync-port-to-your-micro-four-thirds-camera-for-manual-off-camera-flash-or-studio-strobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6587","title":{"rendered":"Adding a PC sync port to your Micro Four Thirds camera for manual off-camera flash or studio strobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Micro Four Thirds cameras (other than the Olympus OM-D E-M1) do not have a PC sync port to connect an off-camera flash in manual flash exposure mode.<\/p>\n<h2>Why do this?<\/h2>\n<p>Whilst you can use a radio flash transmitter system to achieve this without cords, there are several main downsides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>potential issues with the radio triggering &#8211; particularly in areas where radio waves don&#8217;t transmit well or when there are others using the same radio channels<\/li>\n<li>transmitter and receivers cost more and are a little bulky attached to the flash units<\/li>\n<li>cannot push shutter speed above flash x-sync well due to the radio triggering latency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Solution is cheap and easy:<\/h2>\n<p>There are several types of hotshoe adapters which provide a PC sync port:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>hotshoes with full TTL pass through capability to a top mounted hotshoe<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>these are ideal if you wish to also mount your Micro Four Thirds compatible flash and use it as you normally would<\/li>\n<li>I have bought and used the <a href=\"http:\/\/photoloving.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=416\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flash IS-HC120 hot shoe adapter for Canon EOS<\/strong><\/a> (pin compatible with Micro Four Thirds and Four Thirds flash systems), and it works very well and appears to be well made &#8211; NB\u00a0 see post script at bottom &#8211; mine has stopped functioning!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>hotshoes with only a single pin pass through capability to the top mounted hotshoe<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>these are ideal if you wish to mount your Micro Four Thirds flash and use it in manual mode while pushing shutter speed above x-sync<\/li>\n<li>these are getting hard to find!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>radio transmitter unit with PC sync port<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>also can function as a radio transmitter but usually do not have TTL pass-through compatibility for Micro Four Thirds<\/li>\n<li>but even when not used as a radio transmitter may give latency preventing use in allowing faster shutter speeds above x-sync<\/li>\n<li>NB. PocketWizard TTL Canon units do not seem to be able to fire mounted Olympus flash units even in &#8220;pass-through&#8221; mode, and the Mini-TTL does NOT have a PC sync port<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flash IS-HC120 adapter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoloving.com\/inter\/NEWzone\/IS-HC120\/03.jpg\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on flash units for Micro Four Thirds and Four Thirds &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:microfourthirdsflash\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P.S. I purchased one of the iShoot adapters but unfortunately the PC sync connection appears to be very temperamental and thus I have had to stop using it &#8211; it may only be an issue with the one that I received and not a general issue with them but I have decided to resort back to my non-TTL multi-PC sync hotshoe adapter, even though the PC sync ports are not threaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Micro Four Thirds cameras (other than the Olympus OM-D E-M1) do not have a PC sync port to connect an off-camera flash in manual flash exposure mode. Why do this? Whilst you can use a radio flash transmitter system to achieve this without cords, there are several main downsides: potential issues with the radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3],"tags":[33,18,241],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-photography","category-photography","tag-flash","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}