Doesn't solve the riddle but gets around the problem; on ebay you will find little adapters that go on your camera hot-shoe and have a pc sync port. They cost ten or fifteen bucks. But you really shouldn't need to do it that way.
Set the shutter speed to 1/180 or slower. The external pc sync may be dissabled above 1/180. (Just another guess.)
Never tried it before but the book says 1/180 so you may not be able to use 1/200 like I told you.
irinaescoffery wrote:
I set Canon 1/200 iso 100 with speedlight on. The first time I got nicely lit and at the same time very crispy photos of my poor husband who is not allowed out of basement until I figure everything out. LOL.
It still does not fire with sync cord and without speedlight. Still trying to understand.
Thanks a lot. You helped me tremendously.
The camera might be set to use ttl flash control of the on-board flash. Maybe needs to be manual flash mode. (Just guessing.)
irinaescoffery wrote:
I set Canon 1/200 iso 100 with speedlight on. The first time I got nicely lit and at the same time very crispy photos of my poor husband who is not allowed out of basement until I figure everything out. LOL.
It still does not fire with sync cord and without speedlight. Still trying to understand.
Thanks a lot. You helped me tremendously.
Just give him the manual and keep him in the basement until it's all worked out.
:) :) :)
2. when the sync cord is not attached to the camera it still fire simultaneously with the speedlight. Sometimes it doesn't. What is difference if the cord is plugged or not? Does it work through some photo elements?
The strobes have a slave photocell on them. That causes them to fire when the on camera flash fires (as log as the slave cell has a clear view of the on camera flash ).
I checked the 6D manual and the way I read it, if the shutter speed is set to 1/180 or slower, the external 300sdi should fire using the sync cord.
Sorry, I have no way to try this. It works that way on any camera I ever used, but they were all Nikon or Pentax.
Any Canon users please provide the answer to this one!
irinaescoffery wrote:
I tried again. the strobe does not fire with the sync cord connected to the camera but with speedlight off. So, why do I need this cord? Please, help
I never have used an on camera flash, just sync cord or radio triggers, so I am going to have to download the manual for your camera and see if the is a menu item that needs to be set correctly. Don't think so but maybe.
Anybody know about this one?
Yes, you got the pre-flash bit figured. Cross that off the list.
Yes, you got the pre-flash bit figured. Cross that off the list.
If you plug the sync cord from the 300sdi into the camera and set the 300sdi to fire on first flash, that should do it. Otherwise I may not be understanding what you are doing. The camera shutter speed should be set to 1/200 or whatever the book says for you model. Using the camera in manual mode is the simplest when using external strobes like the 300 sdi. That way you can set the ISO to low, set the shutter speed to 1/200, use a suitable aperture and dial down the output of the 300sdi to get what you want.
Just set the 300sdi to fire on first or second flash to match whatever the Canon flash is set for. Sounds like right now it is only firing once and the 300sdi is set to ignore pre-flash. So the is no second flash for it to trigger on.
I checked the 300sdi and except that mine is older and has switches instead of click pads, they work the same. So if I can't figure out answers I will try it. The knob sets the flash output, but it is not calibrated so you will just have to turn it down (CCW) until you get what you want. As answered above, you need to set the ISO on the camera to 100 or 200 or whatever is the lowest value to avoid way over-exposing the shots.
OK, lets get to number (4). Many camera built-in or hot shoe mounted flashed have a pre-flash mode which is to help reduce re-eye. If your strobe(s) are set to ignor pre-flash but the on camera flash is not doing a pre-flash, the strobe does not fire because is is ignoring the first flash and there is only one from the on-camera flash.
Will check back and see what other questions on your list remain un-answered.
How else will you find out about this stuff? That's what UHH is for. Have fun.
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Tommg wrote:
My wife's family has a lot of old photographs that they would like scanned to JPEG photos. Anyone know of a scanner that will help me get this project done.
I have a HP 8600 Pro deskjet all-in-one printer that will scan pictures but for some reason the JPEGs all look like they have a lot of "lint" on them. I have cleaned the glass on the scanner and made sure the photo prints are clean ... still a lot of specks appear ... any suggestions? I set the scanner to 300 dpi and best scan quality.
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You may find vuescan very helpul. Pretty sure it supports the 8600 as well as most others. It has an auto repeat feature so that it will do a scan every whatever number of seconds you select. Scanning at 1200 dpi or so and then outputting at lower resolution should give you good results. Keep in mind that scanning old photos can give you decent results but they are still probably not superb quality to start with. This may help you avoid buying a new scanner and still get the job done.