Pop Up no go in Liveview

Had an interesting twist the other day.
Shooting bugs in the evening, in the shade, so thought I'd just hit the pop-up flash and see if it helped.
Gave it a shot or two through the view finder but I was shooting a mighty tiny 'itsy bitsy' spider so thought I'd switch to live view, manual focus, hit the magnification a couple of times and see if I could improve my focus. (AF just kept jumping to the background and missing the spider suspended on a web in mid-air).
That improved the focus, did get a couple of keepers BUT - the flash would not fire. Go back to view finder - and the flash - flashes. Liveview - no go? Nothing else changes? Whats up with that??


D610 BTW - with 105mm nikkor lens

found the answer

too simple

but had me going for a long time

on the live view button there is a selector for camera or video.
camera works fine (or seems to) when selector is on video and you use live view
EXCEPT the flash won't fire.

flip back to the camera icon and all is well in the flash world

sigh

Thank you for the alert. I have only recently started using Live View so any tips are appreciated.

one curious thing i learned about liveview - is that when you take an image this way it counts as two on your shutter count.
i don't think it wears out the shutter any faster - but for some reason it counts two shutter releases

or so I understand

someone who knows better may want to correct my misguided thinking

Fortkentdad said:

one curious thing i learned about liveview - is that when you take an image this way it counts as two on your shutter count.
i don't think it wears out the shutter any faster - but for some reason it counts two shutter releases

or so I understand

someone who knows better may want to correct my misguided thinking

Click to expand...

Yes, 2 actuations per picture. (maybe more?)

Enter live view... shutter opens and stays that way to expose sensor... then when you snap a picture... the shutter first needs to close to begin a normal shutter cycle, then it opens for the desired shutter time, then it closes to end the shutter time. Finally opening again to return to live view. If the camera took a screen grab from the video stream, it would be different, but it does not work that way. It just sets up for a regular timed shutter shot and then returns to live view.

So it's open-close-open-close-open. I've never really tested it to see it simply entering and exiting live view without taking a photo adds a shutter count. It probably does.