David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

I have developed a situation with my Nikon D7100 and/or my Nikon SB-900 flash.

The other evening I had to use this camera for a night event shoot. Had everything hooked up and took a couple of test shots to be sure my settings were fine. The test shots revealed that the shutter was on delay. Al;most like I had the timer set. Only when I pushed the shutter it was about two seconds before the shutter tripped. I checked and the setting was slow continuous. Not set on timer. I changed it to single shot and same thing. Then I noticed that the flash would fire three times at low power before the main flash. I could not find the problem or setting to change this in the camera or the flash. I removed the sb900 and find that the camera still has a delayed shutter response of about 1 second. I searched every menu and could not find any setting that appeared to be off. Mind you, with the delay, if I waited for the shutter and 900 to flash, I got a great photo.

In my search, I found that this flash might be a modeling light. So I turned that off in the settings and still had the problem.

Any ideas of what I should look for? Also the week before, I had an outdoor shoot and used the camera only with no problems, that is no delay on the shutter press.

Thanks for your input.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Hi, Don't have your camera but I would (if it were mine) do all the "resets" that are available for that model. Full factory reset....then (if that doesn't help) Take out battery and card, turn on and off, then re-install both, and see what happens. Manual or Nikon site may have other methods. Hope you can solve at home.
mikey

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

Thanks, did that. Same problem.

howlynn Loc: pueblo west, co

I have the D7100. Go to Custom Settings Menu - D4- Exposure Delay Mode. Should be off.

nikonkelly Loc: SE Michigan

David, i dont have the D7100, but did have the D7000 and I do believe that your camera does have an equivalent setting to the D7000 and the D800 called Exposure Delay. On the D800 it is D4, and it is not the self timer. it needs to be set to off otherwise it will impose a 1, 2, or 3 second delay on all shots. Just go in and set it to off and I suspect that all will be good!
Kelly

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

Thanks

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

I found the problem after about 4 hours of looking around and reading. The camera was set for red eye reduction. So it was telling the 900 to fire 3 reduced flashes to reduce red eye. Thanks to all for their responses. I think I know how it got set to red eye reduction. I few weeks ago, I was shooting and set up the camera for bracketing. I believe it may have happened at that time due to the button to open the flash and set red eye is just above the button for setting the bracketing. That will teach me to be more careful.