wgsquallx2002
13th of April 2009 (Mon), 20:25
So here's what happened, I ordered a Yongnuo OC-E3b (the 8 ft version of the OC-E3) and hooked that up to a 580EX II on one end and attached the other end to my XTi's hot-shoe. The 580EX II has freshly charged Eneloop batteries while the XTi has a BG-E3 battery grip using a generic battery and the XTi's oem battery.
I setup everything on a new impact light stand and took a shot with my camera. Once the flash went off, my LCD disappeared without evening showing me a review of the picture I just took. I was like, what the heck? I looked at the flash and it was already charged to go for another shot, so I looked back at my camera. I pressed the display button and got no result. Then I went to flick the power switch to off and the camera wouldn't turn off! (the green led on top stayed lit). I had to manually eject the battery magazine. The battery indicator showed that it had about half battery life left (but I'm not sure about its accuracy). When I flicked the power switch back on, nothing happened. No response!
So I'm charging the two XTi batteries right now. Hopefully that's the only problem. I'll update everyone once I get to test them out. And I was sooo looking forward to shooting off-camera...
I setup everything on a new impact light stand and took a shot with my camera. Once the flash went off, my LCD disappeared without evening showing me a review of the picture I just took. I was like, what the heck? I looked at the flash and it was already charged to go for another shot, so I looked back at my camera. I pressed the display button and got no result. Then I went to flick the power switch to off and the camera wouldn't turn off! (the green led on top stayed lit). I had to manually eject the battery magazine. The battery indicator showed that it had about half battery life left (but I'm not sure about its accuracy). When I flicked the power switch back on, nothing happened. No response!
So I'm charging the two XTi batteries right now. Hopefully that's the only problem. I'll update everyone once I get to test them out. And I was sooo looking forward to shooting off-camera...