Nissin Di866 II unable to connect wirelessly with my camera.

T0p cat · 21 Aug 2014

Hi all, i bought my first ever external flash this week after discovering i am going to need it for my new found interest in macro. So i bought the above model and it works fine in the hot shoe even though the user ( me ) hasn't really got a clue what he is doing yet. Tonight i thought i would try it off camera and i cant seem to get it to pair with my 5D III. If i go into my menu for external speedlite control > flash function settings, it says This menu cannot be displayed. Incompatible with flash or flash's power is turned off?. There doesn't seem to be any enable wireless feature on either item so i am now stumped.
Is the wireless feature broken or is it the usual answer, end user being a dufus.

thanks.

Tintin124 · 21 Aug 2014

Can't help with 5d but on flash hit set button then go to wireless mode and select group you want flash to be in. And whether it's manual or ttl

Guess you would then need to do same on camera.

NikonKev · 21 Aug 2014

Have a look Here

Might help you out ..

T0p cat · 21 Aug 2014

Hi Bryn, i have followed that procedure.

NikonKev said:
Have a look Here

Might help you out ..

Kev, i have watched that video and everything works on mine like his on the Di866, until i go to the flash function settings on the camera. There it doesnt appear to find the speedlite?.

thanks for the help so far guys.

gary996 · 22 Aug 2014

It will not work off camera without something to trigger it ie. a cable or a wirless trigger.
The other exception to this is if you are controlling it from a pop up flash which as you know the mkiii does not have.
My advise to you is get yourself some Yongnuo YN-622c triggers and if you want total ease, purchase one of the aforementioned triggers with the YN-622c-tx.

T0p cat · 22 Aug 2014

gary996 said:
It will not work off camera without something to trigger it ie. a cable or a wirless trigger.
The other exception to this is if you are controlling it from a pop up flash which as you know the mkiii does not have.
My advise to you is get yourself some Yongnuo YN-622c triggers and if you want total ease, purchase one of the aforementioned triggers with the YN-622c-tx.

Hi Gary, your message has me slightly confused now. At no point in the instructions does it say i also need to buy a trigger for this system and none of the Youtube videos i have found have used one either?. i have a wireless shutter release which allows off camera flash to be triggered via one of its channels. I just tried it and still no worky.

BMG · 22 Aug 2014

I have the same flash with a 70d and I need to use the pop up flash to fire the Nissin. Not sure about the wireless remote though. Sorry not much more help, although learn't something new, didn't realise 5d doesn't have a flash

chphotos · 23 Aug 2014

As gary966 says, you'll meet to get yourself a set of triggers to fire the flash off camera. Your wireless remote won't fire the flash either, unless you have a compatible receiver on the flash.

gary996 · 23 Aug 2014

The 5D mkiii does not do wirless flash even with canon flashes. You need to link it it with something. You can use a cable or a trigger as I have stated.
The wirless shutter release uses the small ir port on the front of the camera to receive the signal to fire that is it. it does not send signals.
The Nissin flash can be controlled optically by another flash (5dmkiii does not have a pop up), so if you put another flash on the camera you can fire the Nissin with it.

HoppyUK · 23 Aug 2014

To fire a remote flashgun wirelessly, and control the settings, you need a Master unit. On some Canons, the pop-up flash acts as a Master and sends Morse code-like commands by pulsing the flash extremely rapidly. 5D3 doesn't have this option, so you need a separate Master unit of some sort. There are numerous choices.

BMG · 23 Aug 2014

Please forgive me, I don't mean to hijack this thread, however does anyone know if the nissin flash settings I.e power output can be controlled by the camera when fired wirelessly? As mentioned before using a pop up flash.

T0p cat · 23 Aug 2014

Thanks for your help guys, i get it now. I just couldn't get my head around a newish model camera not having the feature built in once they took off the built in flash. I was looking at it like an ipad or phone and how they connect wirelessly.