Just a short post about camera flashes and trigger voltage.
Canon specifies a safe trigger voltage up to 6 volts using the hotshoe on their digital cameras. If it’s higher, it might damage the camera. So I have measured the trigger voltage on two older flashes I have lying around, since I didn’t get (m)any hits searching the interewebz.
Pentax AF-330FTZ has a trigger voltage of 3.14V
Hanimex 325AZ has a trigger voltage of 110V
So the Pentax AF-330FTZ should be safe. Hanimex 325 however, isn’t. What’s kind of scary is that I have used the Hanimex on several occasions on my 350D. Luckily no harm done (as far as I can tell).
Hi, unfortunatelly i use the same Hanimex on a 550d before reading after this thing. I hope no damage happened, my camera didn’t shoot the flash (yours did?), i hope this way no damage happened…what is your opinion?