ADP-AMA adapter with Dynax 7, TTL & HSS

As an E mount digital user I recently jumped on the Godox flash bandwagon and purchased a Godox TT685S and X1T-S wireless trigger. I have a Minolta 5400hs. However, I was wondering if there was the remote possibility an ADP-AMA adapter would let TTL and HSS work on a Dynax 7? Many thanks.

Edited by anewman - 28 April 2016 at 20:02

It's impossible to answer the,question without being clear if you own a E-mount A7, or a Dynax 7D, as they have different flash shoes.

It's also impossible until you clarify whether you want to use your Minolta or Godox flash with the camera, and in what way (on camera, has, off camera).

Sorry.

Come to think of it, I suppose there's a roughly equal chance that the Godox can be wirelessly controlled by the pop-up flash of the Dynax 7 without needing the Godox transmitter. The flash is stated to be compatible with Sony's optical wireless system (along with its own radio communication system). Depending on the company's thoroughness in reverse engineering, that might carry over to Minolta film cameras as well.

I think the 5400HS is an analogue flash, so it should work fully on the Dynax 7 (which can use analogue or digital flashes) directly, but not the 7D or indeed any Sony digital SLR/SLT/E-mount which are all digital. The 5400HS(D) wil do analogue or digital.

If you mean work with the Godex remote, I don't know; does the 5400S give you anything clever with the Godex on your E-mount? I'm a little surprised if it does - I'd expect you to get basic flash only.

I could be wrong, but I think the foot converter just converts the foot mechanically and brings the right connections out, but doesn't do anything clever.

So, no, don't expect the 5400HS to do HSS or TTL with any digital camera whatever the electronics you mput between them - they talk in different languages. That's why the HS models are cheap and the HS(D)s are not!

Ironically, you *might* be better off with an older generation flash like the Vivitar 283/285, which at least can do auto on their own on or off the camera and should still do that with a radio trigger.

addy landzaat wrote: There is some more info on the 5400 HS on the Mhohner site. His flash compendium might also be helpful. You can use the 5400 HS in manual mode. The Vivitar 283/285 aren't easier and have considerably less power. (A common typo is 5400HS(D), but no such flash exists, just a 5600HS(D))

Quite right, thanks for the correction!
Agree the Vivitars are very dated and limited in capability, but they do have aperture auto so you can get a consistent flash on or off camera without knowing the flash-subject distance, and you can adjust the exposure with camera aperture. Does the 5400HS have that mode?

Noticing the Sony HVL-F60M claims to work with the Dynax 7 film camera in TTL and HSS, and seeing the ADP-AMA available at Amazon Warehouse for £16, I was inquisitive enough to try.

F stop reads as f/1.0 on flash and the flash keeps turning off and rebooting. The HSS indicator does come on in the camera so it might fire manually and do HSS. TTL is the main thing I was hoping for as it removes the need for a dedicated flash meter and takes any guess work out of using manual.

TLDR - doesn't work.

There has been no further progress in getting modern flashes to work with film cameras as as time passes they just become more distant technology .
Minolta film cameras ceased to be produced in 2006 , 16 years ago .
Third party flashes designed for the new Sony multi interface shoe aren't even designed to fit on a film camera , let alone communicate with one .
Even Sony dropped compatibility with TTL flash for film cameras years ago , as they never made a film camera !


If you want a flash to work on your Maxxum 7 , the cheapest way of doing it is to forget adapters and just buy something like the Minolta 5400HS or Minolta 5600HS/D .
Both support TTL metering , high speed sync and wireless flash control .
The Minolta 5600HS/D would also work on your Sony a9 via the adapter .

P.S , welcome to the forum .