How to Attach Microphones, Flashes and Lights to Your Camera

For photographers and videographers, this video shows the differences between a camera hot shoe and a cold shoe for flash photography, microphones and lighting.
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Sony A7C
Godox flash
Profoto flash
Westcott flash
beginner photography
videography
microphone for video

[@MarkJennings-x6r]

Perfect. Thank you for making such a straightforward and helpful video!

[@AdventuresofAwesomeJoe]

Got my answer in the first 44 second. Great video.

[@FamousLinkzTv]

Lmaoo

[@ritchncube9337]

Simple and straightforward... thanks

[@andyvan5692]

one other thing, cold shoes are the adaptors on Medium and Large format cameras, to take a flash or trigger, but it is the PC-Sync cable, which carries the power to the switch inside the leaf shutter lens, or the camera's flash circuitry, allowing the flash to fire.

[@ThumbnailGrail]

Great explanation vid, and nice lighting!

[@DennisRosenberg]

Thanks!

[@jthms_snapshots]

Lovely explanation!! great work simple and effective

[@DennisRosenberg]

Thank you!

[@FamousLinkzTv]

Lmaooooo I love this video now

[@ShotsByP]

How can you connect a mic and a flash at the same time? 😅 does having a gimbal help or you can only do 1 at a time

[@rrrrr____]

Is it possible to mount a hotshoe Rode Shotgun mic that usually goes on my camera to a coldshoe from my gimbal cage?

[@theskinnypot]

Thank you.

[@RisingEdge111]

Thank you 💯💯

[@studiotessellate]

Hi there, I have the Sony microphone that connects on the hotshoe like the one you showed. Recently I started using a small cage for my a7iii, the issue is that the top handle now blocks the hotshoe. I tried using a multi flash cable to place the microphone away but they don't seem to work. I don't want to but another microphone, do you know any solutions? Thanks!

[@DennisRosenberg]

Great camera, I have one too. You need an audio cable to connect the mic output to the camera’s external mic input.

[@joncho18]

@@DennisRosenberg Yes but that means I have to buy a new microphone. I bought the Sony microphone that connect only to the hotshoe, it has no output cables.

[@BULATyangHIJAU]

what tripod is that?

[@DennisRosenberg]

Pgytech Mantis. amzn.to/3NluLN1