The Hama 6959, not great, but the best.

The Hama 6959 consists of four parts:
- The black anodized base with the unnecessarily large Hama logo on the side, is a piece, not very finely sawed, of a aluminum extruded section entsprechneden, in the one on the bottom, a sufficiently deep 1/4 "threaded hole, as well as at cameras for mounting on tripods is common, has introduced.
- A plastic element is snapped therein. It serves to isolate the contacts of the flash unit prior to contact with the aluminum base, as a stop so that the flash when placed can not be pushed too far by and it holds two pressure springs in position.
On one of my flash shoes this part was warped and therefore not snapped a on the aluminum casting. On the first attempt to set up a flash, so all the parts fell apart. I have the plastic element is then bent with the help of some tape into shape and heated with a hair dryer something so that it now holds the perfect shape and snaps.
- Press the two small spring plates the foot of the flash unit used or other accessories, such as spirit levels up against the guide elements of Alusockels. Unfortunately, the spring plates are sharp and leave scratch marks in the foot of the inserted accessories. I habmeine with some 400 and 1000 Schirgel burred, as well as a few edges of sawn Alufußes and now everything is feinstens!

I wish Happy tinkering with Hama!

Unfortunately, I could find no better product on the market for this purpose. Given the relatively high price (even here 7.17 excl. Postage 3,99) should consider, perhaps directly or similar with a hot shoe flash trigger to buy, which are usually made of plastic with brass threads and have just eingestztem corresponding advantages and disadvantages.