Sony A6300 Flash Issues?!?

[Anoceanoflights]

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone on here can help me as I am currently panicking that my camera is faulty! 

I have a Sony A6300 that I primarily use for video and photos outside. I've been wanting to change it up and do some Indoor photography with flash. 

My partner has a pair of Neewer N250W strobes with the wireless transmitter (this has just a single metal pin) obviously it fires with her Nikon camera and even an old Olympus SLR camera but will not fire on my Sony A6300! I have even bought a hotshoe converter and that also doesn't work. I have never had anything mounted in the shoe aside from a rode videomic pro.

Has anyone got any other ideas? Short of hoping the camera works and risking buying a Sony branded flash is there a way I can test this? I don't want any fancy control, I just want a flash when I press my shutter 

 

Thanks in advance 

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

Hopefully a community member has had some experience with this.

Best wishes,

M

[Vanilla_]

Hi Anoceanoflights,

Sony usually lists the compatible accessories with each camera model. I've checked the compatible flashes with your camera, and couldn't find the  Neewer N250W included. I believe that's the reason why it wouldn't fire up with your camera. I'd suggest that you try one of the models here: https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/www/cscs/accessories/compatibility.php?area=gb&lang=en&mdl=ILCE...

Regards,

Vanilla_

[Jeff_Green]

The Neewer units can be set to go off whenever a flash goes off so you could use the a6300 built in flash as a trigger.
To use a non Sony trigger the camera flash has to be set to anything other than wireless (Counter intuitive). I'm not sure if the Neewer trigger will work or not.