EOS R50 won't sync with Neewer TT560 flash

[LFerrer1]

Hello,

I have. canon R50 with the NEEWER TT560 Camera Flash Speedlite. It’s not syncing when i take photos. I have the flash setting in manual. Can anyone help with this?? 

Thanks

[deebatman316]

Hi @LFerrer1 the EOS R50 has a proprietary Canon hot shoe. It lacks the necessary pins to work with single pin manual flashes. Canon makes an adapter AD-E1 hot shoe adapter to work with old style flashes. Or you can just get a Canon EL-5 or EL-10 which don’t require the adapter. Other R series cameras retain the legacy 5 pins for older flashes to work.

EOS R50 Hot Shoe 

EOS R5 Mark II Hot Shoe 

 AD-E1 Hot Shoe Adapter 

[kvbarkley]

And I hope that your flash did not damage the delicate fingers on the new flash connection.