Asahizuiko
Member
I recently got myself an R-D1, and I love it so far. I've owned a Zeiss Ikon ZM, Minolta CLE and Leica M3 for a few years, but this is my first digital rangefinder.
My copy is definitely a user, a bit banged up but seems to work okay with the exception of one issue that I discovered whilst shooting in the studio last week. I was using studio flash with a wireless trigger on the hotshoe, and it just didn't seem to sync flash at all, even at shutter speeds lower than 1/125. I even tried it at speeds as low as 1/8 and it wouldn't sync. It seemed to be triggering the flash after the shutter closes. I know that the trigger works correctly with other cameras.
Weirdly, when I tried the pc sync socket that worked fine. I'm glad I have a way to use flash with my R-D1 via the pc sync, but I'd still like to solve the hotshoe issue.
The answer I'm sure is, as ever, send it to a decent repair tech. Never-the-less, I'd like to ask you lot whether you've heard of similar issues, whether you know if there's a simple fix or whether I'm maybe missing something obvious and making a silly mistake?
Cheers
My copy is definitely a user, a bit banged up but seems to work okay with the exception of one issue that I discovered whilst shooting in the studio last week. I was using studio flash with a wireless trigger on the hotshoe, and it just didn't seem to sync flash at all, even at shutter speeds lower than 1/125. I even tried it at speeds as low as 1/8 and it wouldn't sync. It seemed to be triggering the flash after the shutter closes. I know that the trigger works correctly with other cameras.
Weirdly, when I tried the pc sync socket that worked fine. I'm glad I have a way to use flash with my R-D1 via the pc sync, but I'd still like to solve the hotshoe issue.
The answer I'm sure is, as ever, send it to a decent repair tech. Never-the-less, I'd like to ask you lot whether you've heard of similar issues, whether you know if there's a simple fix or whether I'm maybe missing something obvious and making a silly mistake?
Cheers
Cascadilla
Well-known
Have you tried cleaning the sync contact on the hot shoe? A pencil eraser will often work for this--these contacts can sometimes oxidize just enough to prevent the flash from firing.
monopix
Cam repairer
Normally, the hot shoe contact and the pc contact are wired together so there should be no difference which you use. You could get a pc socket to hot shoe adapter and try the wireless trigger on that or get a hot shoe adapter with a pc socket and try that to prove the hot shoe works correctly.
Asahizuiko
Member
Yeah it's pretty weird isn't it. I will try as you suggest. I think I might have the right adapter in the back of a drawer somewhere...