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Originally Posted by Jamie Roberts
... 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? ... |
Jamie, I may not be understanding at all or just late to the party.
On my M8 there's a small hole at the part of the flash shoe nearest the front of the camera, in the metal part of the shoe just in front of the plastic insulation section. (There may be a screw at the bottom of it; all I can see is something black and shiny.) There's another flathead pin about 3mm forward of that hole; it's silver on my camera, and protrudes above the shoe.
My Nikon SB-800 flash slides onto the M8 shoe with no trouble. There's a lever at the back of the SB-800 just above the shoe. Rotating that lever 45 degrees clockwise, the flash drops a locking pin into the hole mentioned above.
I assume the same happens with SB 900.
If you have a protruding screw instead of a hole, screw it in.
BTW--thanks for the thread; I've never had any idea why that hole was threaded. I guess the screw has some function making sure the shoe is in the right position.
I hope there's something here you can use.
