300D with Jessops 280d Flash - how to?

[barreti]

Hi chaps.

I've got (and love) a canon 300d as my first foray into DSLR
I needed a flash quickly for a wedding this weekend and nipped into Jessops whilst in town and bought their 280d as it was 'designed' for the 300d according to the chap in the shop.
It works fine actually on the hotshoe but it comes with a metal arm for mounting it at the side of the camera and a cable for attaching it to the camera. This it makes it much less unweildy and a bit better balanced so I'd like to use it. The only trouble is I cant figure out how to connect it to the camera.
Does anyone know how to do this and will I lose any of the functionality by doing this rather than having it on the camera hotshoe?

Thanks
BARRETI

[_dobbo_]

Isn't the cable just an extension that runs from the hotshoe to the flash?

[barreti]

Hi Dobbo. The supplied cable is a skinny bit of wire with a mono mini jack on one end which attaches to the flash and something which looks like a 1/25th scale TV aerial connector at the other end but theres nowhere to plug this into my camera. This seems strange considering the flash was 'built for the 300d'
I cant see anything on the Canon website which will connect them - its all speedlight remote stuff. I've seen this on fleebay but at more than a third of the price of the flash itself I thought it might be overkill.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/For-Canon-TTL-Off-Camera-Flash

I have just noticed though that the flash only has 1 pin on its base, not 5 like I was expecting. So maybe any hotshoe extension cable will do the job.

Thanks
BARRETI

[te51cle]

If the flash was designed for the Canon EOS range it would have 5 pins on the bottom and you would need the cable you spotted on ebay to connect it up off-camera. What you seem to have is 'compaible' rather than dedicated so I suspect a cheaper off-camera hotshoe and cable would work fine - the more expensive 5-pin would work too but you wouldn't be making the best use of it.