Hello again, Izzy at Digital Goja
showrooms. You're receiving a message on
your screen that says "this flash is
incompatible or the flash's power is
turned off" and you're working with TTL
flashes on your DSLR from Canon. Let's
take a closer look and see why this is
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Well, here we have a very popular EOS
Rebel, this is the EOS Rebel t6s but
this menu is pretty much the same thing
throughout the entire Canon EOS line.
So let's turn on the camera and we're
going to go into our menu settings and
you want to go into the first folder as
you see there where it says flash
control. Now, what I believe is going on
is, notice that your first setting is for
flash firing, if that is said to disabled
you're going to have problems. It grayed
out most of the settings that you have
for your flash control so when you set
it to enable those come to life. So say,
for example you have it disabled and we go
ahead and try to work with something
like the Altura APC-958x flash for
Canon. Alright, this guy has a TTL setting
which is one of the more popular
settings in today's flash photography.
Again, always do this with both units
turned off
you don't want to do any short circuit
and notice how I pushed it straight on. Turn
on the camera, lets go into the menu,
turn on your flash and since we had
flash control disabled now the flash is
not going to fire off, I'm taking
pictures and
no flash is being used. Plus, if I try to
change my external flash settings when
is disabled,
so you're going to have to turn it on
and enable it and now...
still nothing.
So, we go back over here and enable it.
Now it's enabled and now your flash
fires off, but if you have this disabled
and we take the flash off and you
activate your menu again and you try to
go to external flash setting there is
your incompatible flash or flash power's
turned off and even if we have the flash
on here, it's still not going to fire the
flash. So this always has to be enabled
to be able to do any kind of control on
your flash and notice how when you
activate your external flash function
settings you can go ahead and set it to
TTL, wireless. Well this one actually
happens to have 1st curtain, 2nd curtain
and high-speed sync and it
synchronizes it all right on the unit
there. Now of course it will be a little
bit different when it comes to the
smaller ETTL flash, but the settings are
still the same it's just that you won't
have the high-speed sync or the rear
curtain sync, but using this flash on
here is going to be
the same settings that we have here on
the menu.
You want to make sure that you have your
flash to enable, if you have it to disabled
it's going to give you all sorts of
warnings and you are not going to be
able to fire off the flash because it's
basically telling the camera I don't
want to use a flash.
even if you have a flash attached to the
external hotshoe so you always want to
make sure that you have this enabled so
that you don't get any of those error
codes and that you have the capability
of firing your flash every time.
Happy shooting!