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Originally Posted by Jamie Roberts
Ed--I have a black set screw in the front of the hot shoe that is preventing the lock mechanism from kicking in. Are you saying there shouldn't be one there?  Or that it should be there but flush mounted?
That would be one more thing NJ forgot to do, but shame on me for not noticing it...
The flash still fires so I didn't think anything of it... |
Yes there is a small round, no head, slotted screw/post in the front of the hot shoe and then there is a small hole just behind this screw/post.
Just my logical thinking that IF the Nikon SB600 & 800 lock into that hole on both my M8 hot shoe's (and the Leica 24D locks in that same hole) that Leica and Nikon put that lock hole in the same place. If it's in the same place on both camera (and I suspect every camera made these days) then the Nikon SB900 MUST have the locking pin in the same spot as the SB600 & 800. Otherwise the SB900 wouldn't lock into any current Nikon camera.
That's not to say your SB900 isn't a sloppy fit in the Leica hot shoe but what you were describing sounded like the flash locking pin DIDN'T go into the hot shoe hole at all and that you could pull the flash off the camera even with the locking lever on the back of the flash set to LOCK.
So that's why I said "Did you push the flash all the way into the hot shoe. You may only have it in far enough for the contact on the flash to hit the contacts in the hot shoe but not far enough for the pin and hole to line up.