"Mr. Strat" <rag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <47a7f18a$0$6473$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, rwalker
> <rwalker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> However, I am running into trouble with trying to use a flash with it.
I
>> have an electronic flash. Following what I do with my other medium
>> format
>> camera, a Ya****ca D, I put the flash in manual mode, and set the
shutter
>> speed at 1/30 or less, or on X, but I get no flash. I've looked around
>> for
>> information about what the problem may be, but I haven't been able to
>> figure
>> it out. I know the flash works. It works perfectly well with my
Ya****ca
>> D
>> and with my digital SLR.
>
> I used mine with flash on a pretty regular basis. Could be a bad cord
> or something messed up inside the camera.
It's either the flash, the cord, or the camera. The standard PC socket can
be tempermental, and a cord that works on one camera might not make good
contact on another. Try another cord. Try squeezing the outer barrel of
the
cord connector very careflully. Get hold of an Ohmeter (electrical
continuity test meter), and see if there is continuity at the time that
the
camera fires.
Did the camera previously work with flash? If so, perhaps the flash you
were
using has a higher trigger voltage. There may be some corrosion on the
sync
circuit in the camera that the higher sync voltage didn't care about. Or
the
higher synce voltage may have caused some pitting in the contact surfaces
and now your flash with lower sync voltage can't get good closure.
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