Has anyone thought of the idea, since most of the cameras being catered to by CHDK have no built-in "hot shoes" nor "PC flash port connections" to control an external flash..is there a way to make a connection with the usb port (with CHDK programming of course) to trigger an external flash? Buying a slave controlled flash unit has been the easiest solution for this. The problem with this though is we need a digital slave unit for ones with pre-flashes or red-eye reduction or if we are in a crowd with other cameras and flashes is our slave controlled external flash would also be abnormally triggered by the burst of other flash units in the area. So,I was thinking of a hot shoe connected and controlled by the usb port of the compact cameras? Has anyone thought of this before?
- (sorry, I have no answer for your question. I only corrected a text formatting problem in your post and now this forum shows that I posted your question, so I'm leaving this note to let others know this isn't my question)