Using off camera flash... help

well make sure your in manual to start, that would make the flash fire only if you told it to on a canon, not sure about a sony though.

How is you remote flash triggered?

how are you holding it in the air?
 
Yes, tried it on manual.

In order for the remote flash to fire, you have to have the built in flash popped up, which in turn makes it fire each time.

I have tried blocking the built in but this tends to have the effect of stopping the flashgun from firing...

Mark
 
Sounds like your flash uses an optical slave to trigger. In other words it fires when it 'sees' the other flash go off. You could do one of two things.

1. Make a crude mini snoot that fits on your on-camera flash and directs the light at the other flash but not on the subject.

2. Buy a proper wireless transmitter/receiver combo.
 
What flash are you using?
 
If you're using the built in wireless then the onboard flash is always going to fire. The problem could be that if you're in semi-auto modes like aperture priority the camera will be trying to expose the scene 'properly' and it doesn't know that the F42 is snooted. It will see that the F42 isn't contributing to the image fully because of the snoot and will compensate by chucking some more on board flash into the shot.

Have you tried some 'straight' portraits using your setup before going for the fancy snoot stuff? Make sure you understand your kit and it's limitations. In the long run though you're better off with some sort of radio trigger and using everything in manual. Unfortunately wireless flash in the sense you're using it can be very tricky to control light outputs exactly (Nikon's version is better but that's of no use to you).
 
Thanks Kev

Looks like my next job is to make a mini snoot for the pop up then....


Thanks for all your help everyone

Mark
 
I have the same problem,

Apparantly some exposed and developed film placed over the pop-up flash will only let through the IR light which controls the wireless and will not let through much of the actual flashlight, thus allowing you to only see light from the wireless hvl-f42am.

I heard about this but havent got any negative I can use (not used a film camera for years)... supposed to work ***!
 
Cheers, I will try that.

The small snoot works!

Just been playing around with it, You could even make one that adds to the images by directing the the pop up flash...


Mark
 
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