Camera problem

I am baffled but, I have an idea of what is causing this. Camera fires fine, add a hot shoe mount flash and the flash won't shoot. The on camera fill flash pops up when you hit the button but, it won't go back down without manually pushing it back down.
I am wondering if maybe the fill flash is stuck and is overriding the hot shoe mount causing the HS flash not to fire.
At one point this morning the HS flash was firing, even when I wasn't hitting the shutter button. It just fired of a sequence of about 6 flashes.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Which camera?

In general, my first suggestion would be to clean your hot shoe contacts on both camera and flash. The current is very small (especially for the program control contacts), and a surprizing small amount of dirt, corrosion, oils, or other film can cause misfiring.

It is on my D60 and I have cleaned the contacts on both. I even tried a second HS mount flash and still nothing.
I am wondering if the fill flash is stuck internally and it is causing the camera not to recognize the HS flash is mounted. Make sense?

It almost seems like I saw a thread about the same problem...and it was a problem with the on-board flash. I'll see if I can find it again...just don't know if it was here or on FM.

Please can somebody help me, I have tried to connect my cable in to my Canon 300D and it is not registering. I know it's not a problem with the cable as I have bought a new one and that still doesn't work. I have had the camera for over 3 years now and this has never happened before.

If it's a problem with the camera does anyone know what the problem is and also how much it will cost to get fixed? Thank you and look forward (or maybe not!) to your response.

olivia252 wrote in post #2675964
Please can somebody help me, I have tried to connect my cable in to my Canon 300D and it is not registering. I know it's not a problem with the cable as I have bought a new one and that still doesn't work. I have had the camera for over 3 years now and this has never happened before.

If it's a problem with the camera does anyone know what the problem is and also how much it will cost to get fixed? Thank you and look forward (or maybe not!) to your response.

You've got several answers over on your thread.