 Nina jo Sauer |
Using a dedicated flash Hello, I know this is probalby going to sound pretty dumb but I am very new at photagraphy (I just finished a course at our local college) In the course we did not learn about dedicated flash. I am about to take some wedding photo's and would like to know just how this works. I was messing around the other day and my automatic flash popped up also, is this supposed to happen and if not how do I stop it? Thank you for your help. Nina jo
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Kerry L. Walker |
No question is dumb but some answers are. I can't really answer your question about how to stop the pop-up flash from popping up since I don't know what camera you have. A dedicated flash operates in the same manner as the built-in flash on your camera. It "talks" to your camera and vice-versa. A dedicated flash will make your camera set itself to the max. sync speed and, if it is TTL (which most newer ones are) it will communicate with the camera and shut itself off when enough light has reached the film plane (or digital sensor). If you will give us some additional information about your camera, I am sure there are folks here who can help you out a lot.
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Nina jo Sauer |
Kerry, Thank you for your response. The camera I have is a Nikon. It is N65. It has a built in Speedlight that provides and angle of coverage for a 28mm lens with a guide mumber of 12 or 40. Whe the subject is dark or backlit the built-in speedlight automatically pops up. But I was thinking that when I put the dedicated flash unit on I thought that it would probably disable the auto pop up. I am just in the dark over here. Thanks again and any help would be apprecitated. Nina jo
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Christopher A. Vedros |
"I am just in the dark over here." Well then a flash sounds like just what you need. ;-) The built-in flash will automatically pop up if you are in one of the auto modes, and the camera senses that it is needed. It also will pop up to act as an Auto-focus assist light, but I'm not sure if that will happen in non-Auto modes. When you mount a dedicated flash to the hotshoe, the built-in flash will be disabled. Good luck
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Justin G. |
On the Canon side of the house (which is probably pretty close to Nikon) the flash will pop up when needed when you are in the subject modes (or whatever they are called) these are the landscape modes, portrait, flower, etc. when in creative modes, Av, Tv, M the flash will not pop up but if you manually put it up, I believe (could be mistaken) it acts as fill flash.
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Kerry L. Walker |
See, I told you that you could find some help here and these two guys know what they are talking about. As you can also see, they have a sense of humor too. Since I don't have and have never had a camera with a built-in flash, I am not familiar with how they work (Yes, guys, I know they pop up and flash, LOL) but you can bank on what Chris and Justin have told you. Now, to take things one step further, what flash do you have? If you can tell me, I might be able to give you some advice on what f/stop to use. Even though a flash is dedicated, there are some limitations. At f/16 of f/22, the range of the flash will be too limited. At a larger f/stop, like f/1.8 or so, if you are too close, you can get too much flash.
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Tonya Cozart |
The on camera flash will come up on a nikon n65 with a flash mounted to the hot shoe...I don't know why, you would think it would disable it, but I had it happen to me, more than once. I can't tell you why it is happening, but I can tell you how to stop it, but you may have to do it more than once. On your N65, there is a little button on the left side of the camera that has a lightning bolt on it. You can push that button to make the flash pop up and then push the flash back down, or when it does pop up, if you push it back down, it should cancel the flash. Check your manual, but I think this is right, but again, can't tell you why it happens, but it can sure mess up a shot.
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Justin G. |
super glue
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Tonya Cozart |
HAHAHAHHAHAA!!!
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Nina jo Sauer |
Kerry, Chris, Justin and Tonya, Thank you so much for the help that you Provided for me. I am not sure what I am going to do but I will figure it out soon enough I guess. I think It will all work out in the end. I am shooting the photos this Sunday. Hope it all goes okay. If not there will also be video of the event so it will not be a total loss. Thanks again, nina jo
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Tonya Cozart |
Good luck Nina. We are all or have been where you are. Try not to be too nervous and do what you know you can do. My last wedding I stayed sick at my stomach waiting on the pics. Remember, for what ever reason they asked you to do it, they obviously like what you do, no matter how cheap or free someone may be, they still want good pictures and they think you can do it, so you should think so as well. Let us know how it goes!
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