Comments on: Canon Flash Blinking Display: Mystery Solved http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/ Life seen through the lens of photographer Phil Steele Fri, 18 May 2012 13:47:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Phil Steele http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-1049 Phil Steele Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:40:53 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-1049 Tommie - Glad I could help! By the way, I love the photography on your site. Great stuff! Tommie – Glad I could help! By the way, I love the photography on your site. Great stuff!

]]> By: tommie http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 tommie Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:52:04 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-1047 thank you thank you thank you!!!!! i actually just this year switched over to canon from years of being a Nikonian, and while I'm so much happier with my resulting images, I'm still adjusting to the learning curve involved. This blinking display happens to me constantly and has been driving me crazy!! Today I came home from a shoot where it happened again, and was determined to get to the bottom of it. Luckily for me, THIS was the very first post I saw and clicked on! Sigh of relief; blood pressure dropping. :o) thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
i actually just this year switched over to canon from years of being a Nikonian, and while I’m so much happier with my resulting images, I’m still adjusting to the learning curve involved. This blinking display happens to me constantly and has been driving me crazy!! Today I came home from a shoot where it happened again, and was determined to get to the bottom of it. Luckily for me, THIS was the very first post I saw and clicked on! Sigh of relief; blood pressure dropping. :o )

]]> By: Phil Steele http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Phil Steele Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:48:09 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-979 Robert, indeed that custom function to turn off the sleep mode is the first thing I do when I buy a new Speedlite! Robert, indeed that custom function to turn off the sleep mode is the first thing I do when I buy a new Speedlite!

]]> By: Robert http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Robert Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:08:15 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-978 Phil, Agreed, this is very frustrating. Even more frustrating - when you're diffuser panel is deployed the blinking makes it much more difficult to set the power because the little indicator (1/8, 1/4, 1/2, etc.) COMPLETELY DISAPPEARS! #2 most annoying Canon Flash feature? The default setting is to have it power off after just a few minutes of inactivity. Very frustrating to have to keep walking over to your light stand to turn it back on. There is a custom function to override that, but still. robert Phil,

Agreed, this is very frustrating. Even more frustrating – when you’re diffuser panel is deployed the blinking makes it much more difficult to set the power because the little indicator (1/8, 1/4, 1/2, etc.) COMPLETELY DISAPPEARS!

#2 most annoying Canon Flash feature? The default setting is to have it power off after just a few minutes of inactivity. Very frustrating to have to keep walking over to your light stand to turn it back on. There is a custom function to override that, but still.

robert

]]> By: Phil Steele http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Phil Steele Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:42:55 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-736 Ben, for me it stops blinking if I just push the panel back in. No need to remove the battery cover. Maybe your flash is funky. On point 2, I agree, seems dumb. Ben, for me it stops blinking if I just push the panel back in. No need to remove the battery cover. Maybe your flash is funky. On point 2, I agree, seems dumb.

]]> By: ben http://steelevisions.com/blog/canon-flash-blinking-display-mystery-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-735 ben Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:41:45 +0000 http://steelevisions.com/blog/?p=334#comment-735 hey so WHAT do I do about it? I hear ya frustrated! but now i get it, is the only way to "reset" it from blinking to remove the battery cover --- seems it works but seems such an archaic practice to get a reset to occur. pt #2 - the recommendation is to only use the bounce card when shooting with 90 angle? seems dumb or did i miss somn? hey so WHAT do I do about it? I hear ya frustrated! but now i get it, is the only way to “reset” it from blinking to remove the battery cover — seems it works but seems such an archaic practice to get a reset to occur.

pt #2 – the recommendation is to only use the bounce card when shooting with 90 angle? seems dumb or did i miss somn?

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