Flash problem SX50 HS
May 3, 2020 13:50:56 #
Haydon wrote:
No it's not. If any of these contacts are stuck, the camera gets confused because it thinks it's using hotshoe flash and won't fire the onboard flash. Evidently you haven't run into this problem.
OK - no I haven't. Learn something new every day
May 3, 2020 14:56:03 #
crooner wrote:
The flash won't fire. On the right side of the LCD screen, in the shooting mode, there is an flash icon with a diagonal slash through it. I've looked in the manual and at You Tube and at the Canon website and cannot find any useful information. Ideas?
Thanks
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Pages 142 and 228 cover some of the flash settings. Have you checked those? Good luck!
May 3, 2020 17:57:01 #
amfoto1
Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA
crooner wrote:
The flash won't fire. On the right side of the LCD screen, in the shooting mode, there is an flash icon with a diagonal slash through it. I've looked in the manual and at You Tube and at the Canon website and cannot find any useful information. Ideas?
Thanks
Thanks
When the flash icon is displayed with a slash through it, on most Canon cameras that means you have set the camera into a "no flash" mode. It also may mean that the flash needs to be manually raised.
Look in the menu for flash related items and see if there's something accidentally set to prevent the flash from firing. Some of the simpler point-n-shoot cameras have a "no flash" mode right on the dial, too, as one of the "Scene" modes.
EDIT: I just looked at a photo of an SX50 HS and see that it doesn't have "no flash" mode on the dial, but it does have "SCN" or "scene" modes. However, the "HS" or "high speed" camera's SCN modes are mostly related to those functions.... not like "scene" modes on many of the other cameras.
However, look at https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART136941
Simply raising the flash manually (by pressing the little "flash" button), will call up the flash on/off/auto screen on the LCD. Also, there is a list at that link of various camera modes where the flash is prevented from firing for various reasons. Make note of those... if you are using one of those camera modes, even if you have have flash set to on or auto, it will not fire.
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