Alphatracks.com Website Review

Alphatracks is dedicated to Sonys high-end cameras and lenses, as well as the wonderful SLRs made by Minolta. Sanex Hot-Shoe in place on the NEX 5n. Now we’re ready for off-camera flash! This time around, we’ll be looking at the Fotasy Sanex hot-shoe adapter wanted to use my NEX 5n as a test vehicle, because it has the best high ISO performance of the various cameras I own. In order to shoot with off camera flash, I needed an add-on hot shoe that would fit the NEX 5n accessory port. I soon discovered there were a raft of third-party hot-shoe adapters for the NEX series. All I had to do was pick one. With so many different hot-shoes to choose from, I combed through the reviews expecting to find an adapter with a favorable rating. To my initial surprise, all of the aftermarket hot shoes I looked at had inconclusive reviews. I didn’t find any accessory hot-shoes with stand-out positive reviews. For every 5-star, great recommendation, there was a corresponding 1-star result accompanied by warnings that the item was a piece of junk. There didn’t seem to be much middle ground. People either loved these adapters or they hated them. If you want to do proper flash photography with a Sony NEX 5 or NEX 3, you will need a hot shoe adapter that attaches to the camera’s accessory port. I chose this particular adapter because it offers a sync cable port. Notice the port on the side of the adapter. Even more troubling, most of the negative reviews indicated the shoes didn’t work or didn’t fit their camera. Was the quality control on these add-on hot-shoes so bad that half of them wouldn’t even fit on the camera? A glimmer of understanding came when I noticed a review by user who complained that the hot-shoe adapter wouldn’t fit his NEX-7. The NEX-7 was the first NEX model to be offered with a built-in hot shoe. The NEX-7 also features a built-in eye-level view finder. As a result, there is no room (and no need) for the accessory port offered on the NEX-5 and NEX-3 models. So what possible reason would this NEX-7 owner