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reddawn
1st of August 2001 (Wed), 06:10
Hi

I was shooting at an event in a dimly lighted room with a 420EX flash, and was surprised to find myself having extreme trouble with autofocus. Only after the event did I realise that I had turned off Focus-Assist on the camera while shooting outdoors earlier in the day (to avoid the irritating yellow light)

Is there anyway I can turn off the in-camera focus assist when I am not using an externally mounted EX flash, and have the focus assist on the 420EX automatically activated upon turning on the flash? I would have thought that would be the case.....

It's a hassle to use Custom Function to switch Focus Assist on and off for non-flash and flash situations. One can miss shots because of that! :(

any clue?

Lesmac
29th of July 2003 (Tue), 04:14
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