Old Yashica flash

Hi guys,

I just wanted to share my excitement with you!

I had in my garage a very old (1970) yashica flash, it was with other garbages out there for so long, withstanding heat and cold winder, rain and sun! As i was cleaning the garagethe other day i found it.

I put 2 AA batteries in it and it worked! IT F***G works!!!

What is mindblowing to me is that i attached it on my D5200 and it works awesome! Isnt it amazing? :cocksure:

I dont know what model it is. All it has on it is a sticker with a table of ISO and F (the table has max iso 400 )

Re: Old Yashica flah

Talk about old flashes....check this out! And it still works! I use it as a back light fill flash.

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haha nice!

i think mine could be a bit older though!

I would be VERY cautious about mounting an old flash like that to your hotshoe.

A flash like that is much better served performing OCF duties than directly linked to the hotshoe on a modern electronic camera.

Re: Old Yashica flah

Yeah, I think you're right, flipper!

carguy said:

I would be VERY cautious about mounting an old flash like that to your hotshoe.

A flash like that is much better served performing OCF duties than directly linked to the hotshoe on a modern electronic camera.

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Oh absolutely! I only use it as OCF for back lighting. It goes off when it sees a flash.

sorry for my ignorance but what is the problem using that? I mean, what could that cause? problem to the camera or problem to the flash? (im new to these stuff!)

thanks in advance

Hello, re the off camera flash, can somebody tell me how this can work please. I have an old Minolta flash, and like the Yashica, when I found it after easily 15 years, maybe even 20, it still works, and even fired up with the batteries that were in it. Anyway, can I use this as an off camera flash with my D7100?
Thanks

I think this will be the cheapest way to do it.
Dorr Studio Slave Photo Sensor With Flash Shoe - Accessories - Studio - Dorrfoto
You can get wireless ones that will work with more units

I think the newer digital cameras use a flash trigger voltage of around 10 to 12 volts and some of the older flashes put out over 200 trigger volts and can fry your camera. If you use them with radio triggers or infrared triggers and are NOT ATTACHED to your camera directly you will be OK.

Yes older flash may leak high voltage that can fry the electronics of a DSLR. If you want to mount them on hot shoe, you need an "isolator", an adapter which will prevent high voltage traveling to the camera.

SMDV Hot Shoe Hotshoe Safe Sync Adapter SM-512 for Nikon D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D1, D2, D3, D3x, D3s, D3000, D3100, D5000, D7000, Coolpix P7000, P100, P6000, P5100, P5000

Good to know, Aroy!

There are several compilations of various flashes and their respective trigger voltages on the internet. Check your model number for specifics... I just listed the first one that pops up in a google search...

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