Anyone with 7D and 430EX Flash... Help

[vitomalpi]

Ok, well this might answer another issue i had. last week i was shooting outside on a very bright 12 noon day, my 430 was not firing at all. I thought that it was the batteries but when i got home i tried it and was working fine.


So in other words, if there is to much ambient light, then the flash will not capture the light signal from the on camera flash that will make the speed light fire ???

[jcrowe87]

That would make sense, even some IR triggers are faulty in extremely sunny conditions. Sadly this makes radio triggers that much more necessary.

[neuroanatomist]

So in other words, if there is to much ambient light, then the flash will not capture the light signal from the on camera flash that will make the speed light fire ???

Absolutely true. One solution (short of buying RF triggers) that has worked for some folks is to tape a small card above the sensor on the flash(es), to shade them from overhead light.

[vitomalpi]

Absolutely true. One solution (short of buying RF triggers) that has worked for some folks is to tape a small card above the sensor on the flash(es), to shade them from overhead light.
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Will try that next weekend that there is sun out, lately it has been raining a lot here NY.





Thanks all for the answers...