Flash Cords - Why So Short?

Canon's flash cords are only 3' coiled and to get longer, you need to hack it together yourself (or have someone else do it). Why hasn't a company come along and made a longer cord? It seems natural.

The most common use for a flash extension cord is to put the flash unit on a bracket, holding it above the camera. There's no need for a 12-foot cord to do that.

There probably is not a market for 10 million 12-foot extension cords for Speedlites, thus they don't make them.

SkipD beat me to the punch.

Extending the Canon (or Nikon) OCC is really pretty easy to do; it just takes time, patience, and careful soldering to do it right.

For people who don't want to do it themselves, I have been making both hardwired extensions, as well as extensions with a molded mini DIN connector set that allows any number of extensions to be used.

Michael
www.MichaelBassDesigns​.com