Accessory shoe
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Accessory Shoes - also often called "Hot Shoe". The early flash types were simple metal brackets. To install a flash unit, you just slide the mounting foot of the flash into the accessory shoe.
Accessory shoe
Metal fitting on the top of a camera which supports the flash gun, also various other accessories such as a viewfinder or rangefinder.
(see Hot Shoe, Finder & Rangefinder) ...
ACCESSORY SHOE - A fitting generally located on top of a camera to which accessories (such as a flash unit) are attached.
-Accessory shoe - metal or plastic fitting on the top of the camera which supports accessories such as viewfinder, rangefinder, or flash gun.
Accessory shoe
Hot shoe
(flash contacts, TTL auto flash and ready light contacts)
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An accessory shoe is a slot, usually on top of a camera, for mounting accessories such as flashguns, rangefinders, light meters or special viewfinders.
An accessory shoe on a camera that has electrical contacts to trigger and synchronise a flashgun when the camera's shutter fires. More sophisticated cameras have several connection pins for advanced communication between the camera and flash.
A camera accessory shoe with electrical connections for a flash unit on top of a camera.
Hosepiping
The tendency to make unnecessary movements ...
A 'live' accessory shoe, usually located on the top of the camera prism housing that enables you to mount and trigger an electronic flash or wireless transmitter.
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Some housings, as well as Nikonos camera bodies, have an accessory shoe at the top, while others might have a 1/4" x 20 (standard tripod thread) or 8mm threaded hole at the top of the housing to accept after-market aiming light solutions.
The vertical arm of the bracket serves as a handle and mounts a flash unit in an accessory shoe often on top of the handle portion, but there are other methods.
Flashguns with automatic exposure control are equipped with a flash sensor, either mounted within the flash head or in a separate optional unit fitted to the cameras accessory shoe.
Some digital cameras include a histogram feature that enables a precise check on the exposure of the photo. Hot Shoe (Accessory Shoe) A mounting device, usually built onto the top of a camera, ...
Most SLRs and some compacts have the option of attaching an external flash on an accessory shoe. Some have a sync socket so you can attach a studio flash off the camera for more controllable results.
It has two metal brackets and normally one or several electrical contacts in the centre to allow communication between the camera and flash. If it has no contact, this is an accessory shoe.
Older, non-coupled rangefinder cameras display the focusing distance and require the photographer to transfer the value to the lens focus ring; cameras without built-in rangefinders could have an external rangefinder fitted into the accessory shoe.
 See also: Camera, Flash, Light, Shutter, Photograph
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