Title: What Is the Cold Shoe? (and How Can You Use It!)
Headings: What Is the Cold Shoe? (and How Can You Use It!)
What Is the Cold Shoe? (and How Can You Use It!)
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Hot Shoe vs Cold Shoe
Cold Shoe Mount for Off-Camera Flash
Cold Shoe with Electrical Contacts
Cold Shoe Extension
Cold Shoe Adapter for Microphones and Other Accessories
So How Do You Use a Cold Shoe?
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Content: But did you know there are also cold shoes that can connect electrically to a camera’s hot shoe? Despite having internal wiring, they’re still called cold shoes because they can’t trigger the flash by themselves, unlike a regular hot shoe. So you can think of them more as a receptacle of an extension cord that allows you to send electricity to your device using a cable. You need to be aware that cold shoes with electrical connections are uncommon these days. The reason is that you can now connect your camera directly to your flash using a PC-sync cable. There are still cases when you may need this type of cold shoe for connecting two or more flash units physically from a single hot shoe. The most common designs that have cold shoes with electrical contacts are the L-shape and double arm hot-shoe extensions. we’ll discuss these in the next section. Cold Shoe Extension
A cold shoe extension is called such because it has brackets made of metal or plastic that extends from the hot shoe to the side of the camera. Some, but not all, have internal connections that allow your camera’s hot shoe to send signals directly to the flash without a sync cable.