Minox 35 - Disabling flash synch?

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paniolo

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Hello,
is there any way to make the hotshoe of the Minox 35 cameras cold? If you attach anything to the hotshoe, the camera is turning the speed automaticaly to 1/125s. I want to remove that "feature" and want to add an optical viewfinder or rangefinder to it without loosing the ability to use the aperture priority mode.

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TK
 
The Minox hotshoe has a tiny, black, mechanical switch that activates flash sync speed when pushed; you 'll see it if you look inside the hotshoe, under the left rail and to the front. My Minox comes with a hotshoe protective cover that has a small notch in precisely the position that would otherwise push and enable that switch. Perhaps you could file the base of the external viewfinder in a similar manner. Just an idea before you get to the innards of the camera to disable the switch.

PS: I just googled and it appears that older Minox models have the switch in the front instead.


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To do it the hard way: open the top cover and cut the wire connects to the hotshoe - literally making it cold.
 
I have put some masking tape on top of the hotshoe and covered the thing in the top left corner of te shoe that activates flash synch. I check this by seeing whether the metered film speed varies with light levels, as opposed to a fixed value when flash sync is operating.
Why? I have a rangefinder in the hotshoe, to play with focusing accuracy
 
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