Minolta 5xi Hot shoes ???
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Time to clear up the misconceptions methinks 
Firstly the physical size of a hot or cold shoe mount is governed by an ISO standard and thus the width of the shoe mount and it's clearances internally is a standard.
Pin Connections for Flash unit.
Apart from the ISO standard regarding NON TTL flash shoes there are no other standards.
Each manufacturer has developed their own version of TTL and dedicated flash control, and each manufacturer uses different pin locations on the hot shoe, with one exception that is common to all manufacturers being central contact that is the flash trigger.
Achiever make the TZ-250 flash that is multi dedicated to Nikon, Canon, Olypmus, Pentax, Ricoh and Minolta flash shoes as well as being able to work with the standard non dedicated TTL shoe.
Sunpak and Metz also produced flash units that use interchangable deditated modules for different camera manufacturers.
One thing you need to be aware of is the trigger voltage across the hot shoe, some cameras can't take high voltages and the use of the wrong flash can lead to permanent damage of the camera.
Firstly the physical size of a hot or cold shoe mount is governed by an ISO standard and thus the width of the shoe mount and it's clearances internally is a standard.
Pin Connections for Flash unit.
Apart from the ISO standard regarding NON TTL flash shoes there are no other standards.
Each manufacturer has developed their own version of TTL and dedicated flash control, and each manufacturer uses different pin locations on the hot shoe, with one exception that is common to all manufacturers being central contact that is the flash trigger.
Achiever make the TZ-250 flash that is multi dedicated to Nikon, Canon, Olypmus, Pentax, Ricoh and Minolta flash shoes as well as being able to work with the standard non dedicated TTL shoe.
Sunpak and Metz also produced flash units that use interchangable deditated modules for different camera manufacturers.
One thing you need to be aware of is the trigger voltage across the hot shoe, some cameras can't take high voltages and the use of the wrong flash can lead to permanent damage of the camera.
Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Seagull, Mamiya, Rollei, etc all have a standard ISO hotshoe. The only difference is the additional contacts (besides the centre one for triggering the flash).
Nikon flashes can be used on Canon cameras. But not the other way. Except in Manual mode. (See how superior and 'open standard' Nikon is now?
) Canon flashes on the other hand cannot work in all but E-TTL, TTL and Manual. So you can't really use it in the other cameras.Regards
CK
After picking up my 5xi from the Service centre (the pretty recep is back), drop by CP to enquire about the Flash. a lady from CP told me that the analog flash like Achiever cannot work with DC. Even the Metz except the Metz 34. I forgot about the diff between analog and digital flash. Look like I have to buy 2 diff flashes. MEt CK and Redawn. Redawn told me that only certain analog flash can work with DC like Vivitar. Didn't know flash can be so complicated! 
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After picking up my 5xi from the Service centre (the pretty recep is back), drop by CP to enquire about the Flash. a lady from CP told me that the analog flash like Achiever cannot work with DC. Even the Metz except the Metz 34. I forgot about the diff between analog and digital flash. Look like I have to buy 2 diff flashes. MEt CK and Redawn. Redawn told me that only certain analog flash can work with DC like Vivitar. Didn't know flash can be so complicated!
Analog, digital flash? If there's a sync connection (on your camera), be it PC cord or hotshoe and the trigger voltage of the flash is not that high, lots of flashes can work with digital cameras. I've used Achiever and other Metz flash and they worked fine.
"digital" flash might refer to slave flash units.
I C. Yah, my C2040 has flash sync connection but is Oly propriotry format so have to buy the $90 cable someting"CB04" like Tweek.
I have checked out the Metz website referred by you. The MEtz 32-C2 use SCA3302 for Minolta and SCA3002 for Oly C2040 with some "CB01" cable. I wonder if this cable is cheapper. What is this SCA thing? Is the SCA the slave trigger since the spec of Metz 32-C2 doesn't mention slave flash function? Look like the SCA3302 can do ADI as well.
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