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<blockquote data-quote="GracieAllen" data-source="post: 529481" data-attributes="member: 41283">&lt;heavy sigh&gt;I DON'T think it's a fluke OR cosmic rays...&nbsp; It turns out on page 147 of the manual, WAY AT THE BOTTOM, UNDER the picture and buried in a spot where even someone as obsessive about reading manuals as I am didn't see it, there's a line that has a &quot;turns the flash off&quot; setting...&nbsp; I didn't find it, a user in a different forum pointed it out to me.&nbsp; And even THEN, looking at the manual, looking at page 147, I STILL had to read it three times before I found the line buried at the bottom.....SO, t'wasn't poltergeist, it was just another stupid human trick...I don't feel quite as stupid as I&nbsp; might since I've never owned a Nikon camera (F100, D2X, D300, D800, D810, D7200) that had a &quot;turns off the&nbsp; flash completely&quot; setting before...&nbsp; AND, I CALLED Nikon and THEIR&nbsp; support person didn't know it existed either.This morning I pulled the D7200 and played.&nbsp; And YUP, if you change the&nbsp; &quot;flash&quot; setting to OFF, the built-in flash is off AND SO IS THE HOT&nbsp; SHOE.....What struck me as odd is I realized&nbsp; this morning I didn't even know HOW to change the setting for the flash&nbsp; &quot;TTL, slow sync, rear curtain&quot; etc.&nbsp; I had never changed it from the way&nbsp; it came.&nbsp; BUT, the two-button reset changed it from whatever it was to&nbsp; &quot;TTL&quot; so things worked.&nbsp; I can only presume that for whatever&nbsp; reason, mine was turned off - either by me doing it without realizing&nbsp; it, or from the factory.In any case, lots of angst, a mild bit&nbsp; of panic, a fair amount of fumbling around, carrying a backup for the&nbsp; backup body, and 10 seconds to fix once I knew what it was...Once the flash is int TTL (or your chosen mode), you can fire up Commander and the SB flashes work fine, or use the built-in...&nbsp; I KNOW I found having that stupid built-in pop up and &quot;help&quot; me was a pain in the tuchus, so I MAY have found the setting at some earlier time and shut the thing off, but I don't recall doing it...ANYHOW, if you're even trying to use your D7200, and you hate having the flash pop up and help, but now you NEED the flash, and you don't REMEMBER you turned it off, TURN IT BACK ON.&nbsp; It's probably not broken, just off.&nbsp; And don't call Nikon - they don't appear to know the setting exists either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GracieAllen, post: 529481, member: 41283"] <heavy sigh> I DON'T think it's a fluke OR cosmic rays... It turns out on page 147 of the manual, WAY AT THE BOTTOM, UNDER the picture and buried in a spot where even someone as obsessive about reading manuals as I am didn't see it, there's a line that has a "turns the flash off" setting... I didn't find it, a user in a different forum pointed it out to me. And even THEN, looking at the manual, looking at page 147, I STILL had to read it three times before I found the line buried at the bottom..... SO, t'wasn't poltergeist, it was just another stupid human trick... I don't feel quite as stupid as I might since I've never owned a Nikon camera (F100, D2X, D300, D800, D810, D7200) that had a "turns off the flash completely" setting before... AND, I CALLED Nikon and THEIR support person didn't know it existed either. This morning I pulled the D7200 and played. And YUP, if you change the "flash" setting to OFF, the built-in flash is off AND SO IS THE HOT SHOE..... What struck me as odd is I realized this morning I didn't even know HOW to change the setting for the flash "TTL, slow sync, rear curtain" etc. I had never changed it from the way it came. BUT, the two-button reset changed it from whatever it was to "TTL" so things worked. I can only presume that for whatever reason, mine was turned off - either by me doing it without realizing it, or from the factory. In any case, lots of angst, a mild bit of panic, a fair amount of fumbling around, carrying a backup for the backup body, and 10 seconds to fix once I knew what it was... Once the flash is int TTL (or your chosen mode), you can fire up Commander and the SB flashes work fine, or use the built-in... I KNOW I found having that stupid built-in pop up and "help" me was a pain in the tuchus, so I MAY have found the setting at some earlier time and shut the thing off, but I don't recall doing it... ANYHOW, if you're even trying to use your D7200, and you hate having the flash pop up and help, but now you NEED the flash, and you don't REMEMBER you turned it off, TURN IT BACK ON. It's probably not broken, just off. And don't call Nikon - they don't appear to know the setting exists either. [/QUOTE]

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