550EX Speedlight and D30 hotshoe, NOT!

[ytnom]

I cannot get my D30 to recognise my 550EX speedlight flashgun from the hotshoe. Is this a known firmware problem or am I just doing something stupid?

[spark]

Did you try removing the Flash from the hotshoe and slot it in again? My experience was when slotted in, the camera and the flash do not respond until I remove and reslot it in.....

[robertwgross]

Let me pose a question. Did you previously use your D30 camera with some other flash unit? For instance, a non-Canon flash unit? If you did, how did that work?

The reason I ask is that many non-Canon flash units have an extremely high trigger voltage that far exceeds the Canon camera body spec.

I've heard some users that claim it works anyway, and others claim that it "frapped" the camera body's hot shoe electronics. I can't say for sure.

---Bob Gross---

[ytnom]

Problem solved! After reading your posts I tried, and re-tried, again with no luck. I then found it would not work with my EOS3 and changed the batteries. Bingo!!

It is a naughty flashgun as, even with discharged batteries, the LCD display shows and pretends that all is well.

Thanks for your responses and I apologise for bothering you all with a false alarm on my first posting.

Regards

Monty

[droosan]

ytnom wrote:
It is a naughty flashgun as, even with discharged batteries, the LCD display shows and pretends that all is well.

Regards Monty


This is my single bitch about Canon flashes and I have had it since day one: The confusing behavior when battery power gets low.

I'll be working away and things will start to go wrong, I then beat my head against the wall and tear my hair until it finally occurs to me, "Oh, maybe the flash's batteries are low."