Wireless Flash Dynax 9

Mount the flash on the camera .
Turn the camera on .
Turn the flash on .
Set the flash mode to wireless on the camera body ( WL) .
It should now indicate on the flash it's in wireless mode , and when it's taken off the camera body the red light should be flashing on the front of the flash to indicate it's active .

Pressing the AEL button should trigger a test fire .

I've not had an email , but it's always best to reply in the thread you've started where other people will see it and can help as well .
Or when others look for the same answers .

I should add that the flash needs to be compatible .
ie , a. Minolta flash that supports wireless flash on film cameras , or one of the rebadged Sony units .

I noticed that you raise the issue on an old thread about the Sony HVL -F58AM .
Is it that flash you have ?

As already noted in the other thread it doesn't support TTL-OTF metering as Sony never made a film camera , so dropped support .

Thanks for all the advise, as this has been continued on another thread, essentially I would love to prove the old Minolta wireless flash protocol would still work from this the best film camera Minolta produced. A big ask for a 1998 launched camera, but the Dynax 9 says the pop up flash can trigger flashes of it's generation like the 5400HS or Xi near this high spec. flashes.
So if the new Sony flashes HVL-45, 60 etc... can [I know I use them this way] be
fired on the old Minolta optical system [as well as the Radio system] then why can I not get them to fire from the pop up on the Dynax 9.
I have bought a 5400H to try firing that wirelessly and wireless ratio flash, which alone is enough justification to counter the many critics who said a pop up flash should never have been on a "pro" spec camera if it was too be taken seriously. Totally missing the wireless trigger capabilities. BUT and it's a bif BUT, if it can also STILL fire the later initial Sony [with a wireless adapter] and the new generation Radio wireless flashes, it would be brilliant to say, Sony has taken more than the Minolta DNA of it's bodies, but also a bit of the Minolta ethos of Backward compatibility. It's show this in supporting Alpha mount with a Alpha mount body so late in the day and the new FE/E to Alpha lens adapter.       

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Edited by stiuskr - 04 July 2021 at 12:33

The issue is that the Dynax 9 flash system works on earlier film protocols , TTL-OTF ( threw the lens , off the film ) metering .
Digital cameras work off a preflash TTL metering system to measure the required lighting , before delivering the correct amount if light .

Later film cameras ( Dynax 7 onwards ) could use both systems .

Minolta flash guns made from the d7 onwards can operate on cameras using either system.

Therefore the camera can communicate with the flash regardless off its it's a film or digital camera .
Examples are the Minolta 3600hs/d and 5600hs/d .
Sony rebadged these as the HVL-F36/56AM .
These work on any film or digital camera with the iISO hotshoe .

Later Sony flashes dropped support for the film camera protocols .
Think if the protocols being different languages .

If you've got a later digital only flash ( the later sony flashes ) the flash doesn't understand the film camera and the film camera doesn't understand the digital flash .
You might as well be putting a Nikon flash on your Minolta body .

That's why the camera can't command the flash to fire wirelessly as they speak two different languages.

Likewise the sony HVL-F20am works great as a controller on the Sony a900 , all it does on a film camera is flash at full power only .

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