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The Older Sony NEX Camera Have a Brand New Flash Trigger

Chris Gampat
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08/18/2013
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Last Updated on 08/18/2013 by Chris Gampat

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If you’re a user of the Sony NEX 5r, 5n, 5 or most of the 3 series and you’ve been considering an upgrade then you’ll possibly be aware that Sony has changed their hot shoe system to a more conventional shoe. That shoe is present in the NEX 6 and the entire line may be moved to it soon.

But don’t worry–if you don’t have a need to upgrade your camera but you want to work with flashes via radio, then you can consider these new triggers from Fottga. They’re called the Allacax NEXT II, and they are a pair of 2.4GHz radios for flashes. But that’s not all, the company also announced a new adapter called the SMOR that converts the old hot shoe into a more conventional one that they’re claiming allows for 1/320th of a second sync speed.

Even awesomer is the fact that the triggers won’t require batteries and instead will pull power straight from the camera body. The receiver will take two AA batteries.

Via Lighting Rumors

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.