Submitted 11 months ago by tester1121@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I have noticed phones with a handset (like the one in the image) have a little cover that resembles something like a cold camera shoe under the bottom of the handset’s top speaker holder. Is there a use for it? It has a line bump in the middle, but it doesn’t go all the way from both sides, it leaves a gap. I have also seem some of them have extra space on the top of the cover, and some don’t.
Why would you attach an image that does not show what you are referring to?
See fig. 1 (unrelated)
What the heck is a camera shoe?
I got mine in a set that came with a poop knife.
Get any good sticks with that?
The “hot shoe” is the mount for a flash or other accessories on a camera upload.wikimedia.org/…/Canon_350D_Hot_Shoe.jpg
could had posted a picture if a horse ut would be just as helpful but a lot funnier
Or maybe you meant this thing. Yeah, it keeps the handset in when the base is mounted vertical. You can see that it’s slanted in the back.
That’s so it slides in and out on this other slanted lip on the handset instead of getting caught on it. You can take the handset off just by pulling it directly away from the wall.
Btw, on Trimline phones it is reversible for if you’re not hanging it on a wall. It looks like this when you pull it out.
Exactly this. It’s called a “hook” and when the phone is “off the hook” that’s the thing it is off of. Being off the hook means the phone is powered up and connected to the local loop. When the phone is “on hook” that means it is disconnected from the loop and awaiting the pulsed ring signal.
Desk phones have a reversible hook so that it keeps the button depressed when the phone is in the cradle but doesn’t catch when you attempt to pick it up.
On modem signals in the old days, the + was equivalent to “flashing” the hook, or quickly disconnecting and reconnecting to the loop, and the AT command H1 told the modem to go “on hook” while H0 told it to go “off hook”.
Back before the DTMF network, when everyone used pulse modulated phones, the “pulses” were caused by going in and off hook in a specific pattern. You could actually make a phone call from a rotary payphone by flashing the hook in the pattern that mimicked the rotary dial pulsing the line as it rotated back to home position.
In the really old days, the hand crank served much the same purpose, but actually supplied electricity to the local loop; when the phone was on hook (which was a big metal thing the earpiece sat in) someone else turning the crank would make all the phones on the loop ring; you picked up if the ring matched the number of rings for your extension.
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(Do people really no longer have phones on their desks or what?)
You’re description only leaves me with more questions. I have no idea what you’re talking about, and therefore have no answer.
Lots of people in this thread answering the question but they’re kind of just guessing what you’re talking about.
Perhaps you could circle the bit in question because it’s either a holder for the headset or a way to mount the entire device onto a wall or something else depending on if we’ve interpreted your words correctly.
I’m pretty old and even have a camera that uses these things, and took a class on photography; never heard them called a shoe. 🤷🏻♂️
You probably grew up in the age of rotary phones too, hu? The last one I used was only … uh… 35 years ago, I think.
An old hack that not many knew was that you could tap the hang up switch to dial numbers. Example, tap 3 times = 3, tap 10 times = 0.
Rotary phones did the same thing which is why you had to wait for the whole thing to spin back, it was tapping the line to dial out.
English is not my first language and I don’t understand what camera shoe mean. But I think I know what you’re asking for. That phones can be mounted on a wall and what you’re asking for is there so the handset doesn’t fall off.
It’s ok. English is my first language and I don’t understand what OP means by “camera shoe.”
It's an adapter for attaching your camera to various mounts. Which, honestly, should give OP a very strong indication as to what it's for.
Native English speaker here, I don’t have a clue what a “cold camera shoe” means either…
Hello, fellow null
Not sure if this is what you’re describing, but phones like the one you pictured have a reversible tab for use if you mount the phone to a wall - if the tab is sticking up, it keeps the receiver from falling off the cradle.
Here’s a site selling them, but it has a diagram showing where it’s located:
Thank you for providing a source, even still I’ve never heard the words “cold camera shoe” before, and nowhere is it written in the screenshot you provided, but apparently some people in this thread know what a “cold camera shoe” means And I find this all very amusing.
Yeah, same! I thought I had a pretty good guess from the context, but “cold camera shoe” is a new term for me. Glad Lemmy has such a great community though, there are some awesome responses in this thread!
Holy shit I’m old
The intersection of people who aren’t five figures into photography and know what a hot shoe is, and people who recognize a wall mount phone trend old.
LOL, you definitely don’t have to be five figures into photography to know what a hot/cold shoe is. Most consumer and prosumer cameras have one.
Or just anyone who’s worked at a help desk.
It’s for a hook to keep the handset on when the phone is mounted flat on a wall. It can usually be slid/folded down or removed when its not need.
So the phone can securely hang with the base attached to the wall.
Are you talking about the attachment point for a shoulder rest?
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What in the world is a cold camera shoe?
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a slot on a camera that you can use to attach accessories, like a microphone or flash. A hot shoe provides power to the accessory, a cold shoe does not.
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
Neat!
otp@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ah, OP was just asking about the flash holder for landlines.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, see what a hot camera shoe is?
Just Leave it outside for a while, and there you are.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Instructions Unclear: I live near the equator.
It’s hotter n hell now.
azdle@news.idlestate.org 11 months ago
Its a non-powered version of a hot shoe, both of which are the thing you use to mount an external flash that’s on the top of a lot of (all?) full sized cameras.