by "Garry Douglas" <garry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 13, 2008 at 10:56 PM
"Fred Anonymous" <anon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> The A1 had a standard hot shoe and just needed an off-shoe cord in order
> to use a flash off the body.
> The F1 needed an adaptor to accept a hot shoe flash or hot shoe cord, if
I
> remember. Its standard flash connector was a PC socket (once again, if I
> remember correctly).
Just had a look at my old A1 and F1n. The A1 indeed has a standard hot
shoe
and a PC socket. I never had a Canon flash (used Vivitar instead) but
can't
for the life of me remember how I handled off camera flash. I'm fairly
sure
my 5600 had a removable dedicated Canon module so there may have been a
module extension lead that fitted in the hot shoe..
The F1n also has a standard hot shoe and a PC socket but I have the AE
head
on it and am not sure about the standard head.
> I had an A1 and changed to a T90 (20 years old and still working) which
> gave me the following advantages:
>
> - vertical metal shutter rather than a fabric horizontal one gave me a
> higher flash sync speed and hand-holding at a lower shutter speed;
>
> - spot metering;
>
> - TTL flash;
>
> - motor drive;
The A1 had a moror drive. You just had to screw it on the bottom of the
body
:-)
Garry
