Hello again, Izzy at Digital Goja showrooms. Well, you stepped up your game
and you now have a brand spanking new DSLR and you've noticed that the
built-in flash just isn't cutting it for you, so you now actually went ahead and
pulled the trigger and got yourself an external professional flash, like the
Altura E-TTL for Canon and the Altura Pro series APC 958 X for Canon, but you're
having issues with the settings and you can't change the setting something's going
on.
Well, let's take a closer look. If this video helps you out
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So here we have one of the more popular rebel cameras on the market, now this is
the EOS T6s. Alright so you've been using this for awhile you stepped up
your game you're now working with a DSLR and you like using your camera on this
mode. Notice the green auto setting, this is your main issue because when you have
the camera set to this mode it basically says I'm in charge
you're just along for the ride and you can't do anything about it, so in this
mode when you attach a flash you start out with the Altura E-TTL flash for Canon.
This guy on here, remember always do this with your camera and your flash off and
when you attach it goes straight it, don't do any side to side turning
because you can damage the foot of the flash or the hotshoe of your camera. So
now when I activate the camera and I activate the flash
and notice that my flash is on TTL as a TTL setting that lights up, now in this
mode the camera and the flash are one but the camera is making all the decisions
ii's setting the aperture, it's setting the shutter speed everything even if you
change all the dials you try to control here press nothing's going to happen
you won't be able to change any settings on your flash because on this full auto
mode the camera is doing all the thinking for you
you go ahead and say well let me switch it over to P for program, that's the P
setting on the control dial here, here again I cannot change aperture or
shutter speed,
nothing is going on the only day I can override is maybe exposure compensation
that's it so basically when you want to do some control of your external flash I
would highly recommend setting it to TV, which is time value this way you can
pick the shutter speed, and remember you have to work anywhere between 1/60 and 1/200
of a second and it will pick the corresponding f-stop to give you a
little bit of control, but I highly recommend. I know this sounds kind of
leery but you want to switch over to Manuel we're now I picked the shutter
speed
let's try 1/200 of a second and the f-stop and the camera and the
flash they are still working in through the lens metering so it's going to still
control the output of your Flash the only thing you're doing is you're
controlling your exposure when it comes to how much depth of field you want and
how fast your subject is moving
same goes for the Altura 958 x the 958 the APC 958 X again the same thing
this guy is a little bit more power for output this one also has high speed sync
and rear curtain sync plus it also has
the wireless TTL that can control be controlled or control secondary flashes from
Canon that have the wireless ETTL, both situations you will eliminate the issue
of not being able to change any settings on your flash and the camera if you
switch over to an override mode like time value or manual.
Happy shooting!