>From: Chuck Mickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Help!
>
>The built-in flash on my EOS 5 isn't popping up either
>in the green pic mode when conditions warrant, or when
>I press the flash button on the top left side of the
>camera in the creative modes (ie P, Av, Tv, etc). I'd
>been using my 300EZ flash just prior.
>
>When I press the flash button in the creative modes,
>the LCD panel goes blank except for the flash
>compensation scale, and I can use the knurled wheel
>under my forefinger to adjust the compensation amount.
> This sounds normal, except you're only supposed to be
>able to do this AFTER the flash has already popped up,
>which it hasn't done.
>
>Has anyone experience with this? I'm hoping it's a
>blunder on my part and some simple solution re:
>configuration of the camera's functions can be reset;
>otherwise I fear an expensive trip to a service
>center. In that case, does anyone have a
>recommendation? I live in Massachusetts. Thanks in
>advance.
Hi Chuck!
Some time ago a friend of mine had the same problem. One of the pins in the
hotshoe didn't come back up. That's how camera knows it has external flash
attached. We tried to get it up but had no luck, so it ended up at service
facility. Annoying thing about it is that the whole body has to be
disassembled. But then again they noticed that capacitor was bad (or was it
some chip???) and changed it and also recalibrated the camera.
If my memory serves me well cost was in the region of 70-80$.
The quote for getting the pin out was something like 25$.
Good light
Grega
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