Smallest camera with hotshoe?

Shay Stephens

Anyone have an idea of what the smallest camera with a hotshoe is? My initial thought is the Sony V1. I have used it before, and it is small, but I am hoping for even smaller. Any ideas?

robscomputer

My Canon G3 with 420EX is pretty small, just about any smaller and the camera would be too hard to balance with the flash. If I remember the G6 is smaller than than the G3 and might be a good balance between small size and features.

I briefly held the V1 at the local store but don't recall just how big it's compared to the G6.

Rob

Shay Stephens

Ya, I am going for small, really small. My idea is that the camera would only be using a PocketWizard transmitter on the hotshoe. So the smaller the camera can be the better.

robscomputer wrote:

My Canon G3 with 420EX is pretty small, just about any smaller and the camera would be too hard to balance with the flash. If I remember the G6 is smaller than than the G3 and might be a good balance between small size and features.

I briefly held the V1 at the local store but don't recall just how big it's compared to the G6.

Rob

gus

Olympus c-5050 has a hot shoe but not sure if its small enough. I used to put it in my coat pocket

luckyrwe

I used to have a Minox with a hotshoe adapter...

Jekyll & Hyde

J: Interesting request.

H: So you aren't actually going to be taking the pictures with this camera?

J: Using it to trigger a remote camera and/or lighting perhaps?

H: Does your radio trigger have a "test" button?

J: Or am I reading too much into this?

H: Have you considered using a "digital" optical slave to trigger the radio remote? If you redirect the camera's flash to the optical slave, you can then use your camera of choice (perhaps a tiny Sony T7).

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=263024&is=REG

Ya got me wonderin'
J&H