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Hot Shoe


Hot Shoe describes the area of a camera where the flash piece is attached to the camera base. Shaped like a horse shoe, the hot shoe has two parallel rims under which the flash unit is slid to fix it to the camera. When the flash attachment is fixed, a metal piece on the underbelly of it connects to a similar metal piece on the camera. As your camera fires off a flash, an electrical current passes through the camera’s [...]

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