what is going on you guys my name is Daniel and welcome back to the channel
where we go over everything mirrorless Canon cameras I have the EOS R here
and I'm shooting on the m50 across from me and today we're gonna be going over
how to use a flash with the EOS R and specifically canons speed light some of
the great things about this is that it's a mirrorless camera like I said the US
Army realest and it doesn't have that it doesn't have that flippin out of the
mirror sound in it so you can take silent photos when you need to for
example in a ceremony or whenever it's just quiet and you don't want to be
interrupting what's going on but what happens when you'll also need a flash so
you come up you attach your flash you're shooting in silent mode and then you
turn your flash on you're gonna use it and nothing happens
nothing happens again cut nothing happens a third time your Flash is
working fine you check it you fire it off it flashes what do you do what do
you do
so this is something that happened to me the very first time I tried to start
shooting with the EOS R and is why I keep the shutter on that it gives it a
little bit of sound so I can know for one when it's actually firing and taking
a picture rather than the outline popping up and second I can use the
flash without afternoon to change any settings so you are not actually able to
go into and shoot with the EOS R on silent mode so you have to have the
shutter on it to be able to fire off your speed light so we're gonna go over
some of the things right now exactly you need to know to be able to shoot with
the speed light first off super simple make sure that the actual speed light is
on there it's a little bit more difficult to do it and then it has this
latch right here you need to put down the latch and then it will sync up with
that turn it on and you will see the pilot light come on when you press the
pilot light it's gonna flash so you know that it's working these things take turn
it off it takes four double A batteries inside there I suggest using
rechargeable batteries that's what I do from the local store down the road if
this would close for me now okay and I keep two sets and that's usually enough
for doing five six hours of shooting with so the very first thing you need to
do is turn off the silent shutter if you have the silent shutter on you will be
locked out from using the speed light but as soon as you turn the shut silent
shutter off you will not be able to turn it back on - silent shutter mode while
it's linked up to the speed light so what it is is it's in the first red
camera under tab six and it's gonna be the third one down silent shutter you're
gonna click into that and you're gonna hit disable there you're gonna stay on
the same red camera lens but this is in number two and you're gonna go to number
two and the second one and click enable speed light control flash firing enabled
otherwise your Canon is not gonna fire off the flash no matter what and this
last one is something that I ran into the
event that I shot so what happens if you don't adjust this is normally out of the
box the camera settings you'll come up you'll go here and it will give you
whatever settings you have on it already so if you're shooting at 400 ISO it's
only going to show you 400 ISO and how it should look through that lens without
the flash firing so when you come up to look everything's gonna be pitch black
in there you're not gonna be able to see anything right off the bat and then it's
gonna take a second you're gonna try to focus where you want it to and then it
will search and then it'll boost up the is oh and kind of make it look that way
and then it will find focus and work so to avoid this process where it keeps
like it's like a bump a speed bump on the way to take that picture that you
have to go over so to avoid that we're going to change one simple setting and
it is turning off the simulated exposure so what you're going to do is you're
going to go back into the menu and you're going to go over into tab three
and it's at the very bottom so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 the 8th down at the very bottom it
is exposure XPO simulation and you're gonna want to go
in there and you're gonna want to hit disabled and that's gonna allow your
camera every single time you come up and shoot to already have a boosted is oh
look so that it doesn't have to search as long for focus and that's gonna allow
you to take the pictures faster and more efficiently than having once again that
speed bump in the way so when you have this going it's a really nice thing when
you're not shooting with the flash and in perfect light conditions but when
you're in low-light conditions you're gonna want to turn this off so recently
I shot a Roaring Twenties party and I had low light situation I used this
exact setup and if you want to go see how exactly I dealt with it and how the
camera actually worked out in my review for the EOS R in low light go and
check out the video right there my name is Daniel in this channel we go over
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