Tiny hot shoe flash?

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I'm looking for a tiny hot shoe flash for my Vitomatic II. Camera is quite small so it'd be silly to have a large flash mounted on it.

Flash uses a PC sync socket, so I'd need one compatible with it.

Any recommendations?
 
I don't get it. Do you want a flash to use in a hot shoe or one with a cable to go to the PC socket on the camera? Their are plenty of small hot shoe flashes, but one with a cable I don't know. I use a small converter mounted into the hot shoe when I use a non-cable flash.
 
I have a 253 (9 volt battery) very basic, hot shoe or sync cord, 3 settings, manual, auto close and auto distance. No bounce but it was five dollars.
 
I have a Nikon SB-30 flash unit which fits this bill for me. Very compact, multiple manual power settings, auto-in-flash capability, and typically about $50 to $65 from Ebay. Takes a Lithium CR123 battery and gets a huge number of flashes per battery. If I need a PC cord connection, a $6 adapter provides it.

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charjohncarter said:
I don't get it. Do you want a flash to use in a hot shoe or one with a cable to go to the PC socket on the camera? Their are plenty of small hot shoe flashes, but one with a cable I don't know. I use a small converter mounted into the hot shoe when I use a non-cable flash.
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I guess I should have said "cold shoe flash". The vitomatic II has a cold shoe on the top and uses PC sync cable to fire.
 
Sunpak Auto 121 is small, shoe mounted, with built-in (and stowed) PC cable. Has a single auto setting, or manual. Uses 2x AA batteries.
 
If you had a hot shoe I was going to send you this:

small flash by John Carter, on Flickr

but I use the Vivitar 2600-d with a converter at times (about the same size as the 252, but again it needs a converter)(plus it is a little newer so it doesn't completely discharge with each flash, so cycle time is shorter on auto and battery life is longer)(and 4 AA batteries vs 2).
 
Whichever one you choose. Be careful these shoe holders and battery covers are old plastic. And lots of them are broken. The Sunpak Auto 121 looks like a good one but it would be nice to have it checked out. When digital came along everybody gave me their old flashes about 1/3 had something wrong with then.
 
charjohncarter said:
Whichever one you choose. Be careful these shoe holders and battery covers are old plastic. And lots of them are broken. The Sunpak Auto 121 looks like a good one but it would be nice to have it checked out. When digital came along everybody gave me their old flashes about 1/3 had something wrong with then.
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I wish I enough knowledge to breath life back in my old Vivitar 192, and find a couple of illusive AA battery packs (I think only sold in Japan).

B2 (;->
 
Ended up going with the vivitar 253. It was only $5. Hopefully it's small enough, hard to tell the size, the 121 looks a little bit smaller but will see once I get it, for $5 can't fail too hard.
 
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