Built in Flash

[cwgrizz]

I very rarely have tried to use the built in flash. Yesterday, while shooting some "junk" in the garage the fluorescent lighting was dim so I popped up the internal flash. It fired one time, but I had placed my hand in front of the flash to diffuse the light. Not being happy with the results I shot another shot without my hand in front of the flash, but the flash didn't fire. I think I was in Manual Mode (actually one of my U settings, but I don't know which one). It might have been Shutter priority. Anyway I switched to Aperture Priority and checked menu settings for flash mode which was iTTL. I played with various flash settings using the command wheels and other things. Flash, no flash, no flash, flash and no real pattern in the few things I played with. I will play again, but if anyone has some insight on what to check in settings, etc. please feel free to holler.

 

[cwgrizz]

Never mind. I tried to duplicate it tonight and it flashed every time. I guess the next time (if there is a next time) I will try to get more details. Ha!

 

[mikew_RIP]

Ime sure every one around you will be pleased you are able to FLASH again

 

[NIKONIAN_DREAMWEAVER]

I very rarely have tried to use the built in flash. Yesterday, while shooting some "junk" in the garage the fluorescent lighting was dim so I popped up the internal flash. It fired one time, but I had placed my hand in front of the flash to diffuse the light. Not being happy with the results I shot another shot without my hand in front of the flash, but the flash didn't fire. I think I was in Manual Mode (actually one of my U settings, but I don't know which one). It might have been Shutter priority. Anyway I switched to Aperture Priority and checked menu settings for flash mode which was iTTL. I played with various flash settings using the command wheels and other things. Flash, no flash, no flash, flash and no real pattern in the few things I played with. I will play again, but if anyone has some insight on what to check in settings, etc. please feel free to holler.

Sounds like you got it working okay. One thing that I like to do when using the built-in flash on the D7100, is set my auto-iso OFF. If auto-iso is on, the camera will many times choose an outrageously high ISO. I set my ISO manually to 100 and see if that will work, if not, I bump it up to 200 or 300 and that will almost always work fine. You get better picture quality at the lower ISO's.

 

[cwgrizz]

Sounds like you got it working okay. One thing that I like to do when using the built-in flash on the D7100, is set my auto-iso OFF. If auto-iso is on, the camera will many times choose an outrageously high ISO. I set my ISO manually to 100 and see if that will work, if not, I bump it up to 200 or 300 and that will almost always work fine. You get better picture quality at the lower ISO's.

Yep, it may have had something to do with ISO (auto) or an auto focus thing with BBF or some other setting. I first popped it up because I saw the shutter speed had dropped to 1/2 second or so and I figured I would throw the flash into the mix. When I did get it working the next day, I did notice something with the BBF. The shutter, at times, would not activate unless I released the BBF button. Auto focus issue and shutter lock I suppose, even though I never have that problem without the flash. Without the flash, I can take as many out of focus shots as I want. Ha! Really too many variables that I didn't look into at the time. Ha! It's always another fork in the path along the journey of the world of DSLR photography. LOL

 

[aroy]

There is a minimum distance required, less than that the flash will refuse to fire in all but M mode. At times in my case, with AF-S and flash popped up, the camera refuses to fire as either the focus is not acquired or the distance is too little.