Rob Knutson |
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digital camera with slave flash
I have a Sony dsc-f717 (digital camera.) I am unable to get slave flash units to work properly.Sync problem? Thanks for any help. rob
July 07, 2003
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Jon Close |
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The built-in flash on the camera is probably lighting and setting off the slave units before the shutter opens. It does this because (1) red-eye reduction flickers the flash before it fires to get people's pupils to close. This function can be turned off, (2) the camera uses a pre-flash to set the TTL flash exposure (flash fires twice). I don't think this can be defeated.
July 07, 2003
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Rob Knutson |
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Thank you for your response. I had already turned off the red-eye. The problem is the TTL metering. I was able to solve this problem this by using an external flash (non-sony)to trigger the slaves. Thank you again, I should have consulted this forum two weeks ago and saved myself much frustration. rob
July 07, 2003
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