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Does it have a hotshoe contact? Then yes it's compatible.

The number of flash features which will be made unavailable or made manual increases with temporal or corporate distance from the manufacture of your camera.

P.S. be careful connecting very old flashes without hot shoe contacts to modern cameras. Some of those old flashes pass 110vAC through their sync cables!

Update: Many incompatibilities due to trigger voltage (I.E. older flashes with very high voltages) can be overcome with a "universal hotshoe" Such a unit often also includes a sync-port. Most cameras with 6v trigger include overvoltage protection and I've seen cameras with blown out overvolt circuits which sacrificed the hotshoe to save the rest of the camera. Probably better to just buy the $20 part and not take the chance.

Bear in mind that there are two points of potential incompatibility. First is mechanical incompatibility. This is easy. If it fits and everything lines up (contacts touch where they should and don't where the shouldn't) then you are good to go. The second is electrical compatibility. This is trickier since there is no visual check you can make (unless trigger voltage is printed on the flash) and it would be quite a task to make a list of every flash and which cameras it is compatible with. so find a manual, do your homework and, when in doubt, use an overvoltage protector.

Does it have a hotshoe contact? Then yes it's compatible.

The number of flash features which will be made unavailable or made manual increases with temporal or corporate distance from the manufacture of your camera.

P.S. be careful connecting very old flashes without hot shoe contacts to modern cameras. Some of those old flashes pass 110vAC through their sync cables!

Does it have a hotshoe contact? Then yes it's compatible.

The number of flash features which will be made unavailable or made manual increases with temporal or corporate distance from the manufacture of your camera.

P.S. be careful connecting very old flashes without hot shoe contacts to modern cameras. Some of those old flashes pass 110vAC through their sync cables!

Update: Many incompatibilities due to trigger voltage (I.E. older flashes with very high voltages) can be overcome with a "universal hotshoe" Such a unit often also includes a sync-port. Most cameras with 6v trigger include overvoltage protection and I've seen cameras with blown out overvolt circuits which sacrificed the hotshoe to save the rest of the camera. Probably better to just buy the $20 part and not take the chance.

Bear in mind that there are two points of potential incompatibility. First is mechanical incompatibility. This is easy. If it fits and everything lines up (contacts touch where they should and don't where the shouldn't) then you are good to go. The second is electrical compatibility. This is trickier since there is no visual check you can make (unless trigger voltage is printed on the flash) and it would be quite a task to make a list of every flash and which cameras it is compatible with. so find a manual, do your homework and, when in doubt, use an overvoltage protector.

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Does it have a hotshoe contact? Then yes it's compatible.

The number of flash features which will be made unavailable or made manual increases with temporal or corporate distance from the manufacture of your camera.

P.S. be careful connecting very old flashes without hot shoe contacts to modern cameras. Some of those old flashes pass 110vAC through their sync cables!