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Chapter 2: Preparing to Take Pictures 18 Using Flash
Note: When you first power on your camera,
the pop-up flash is down, and the status LCD
shows no flash mode icons. The flash is turned
off and the flash will not fire until you manually
pop it up by pressing the pop-up flash button
on the top of the camera.
Using Flash
The camera has an built-in pop-up flash. It also supports an external flash that you can attach to the
hot shoe on top of the camera.
Using the Pop-up Flash
Figure 11: Pop-up Flash Button To use the built-in pop-up flash:
1 Manually pop up the flash by pressing the pop-up flash button (see Figure 11).
The flash will begin charging, and the flash mode icon will display in the status LCD.
2 Press the flash mode button to toggle through and choose the appropriate flash mode setting
(see“Setting the Flash Mode” on page 15).
To turn the pop-up flash off, press the pop-up flash unit down until it locks shut in the camera body.
Note: The maximum flash-shutter sync speed is
1/500 sec.
Using an External Flash
To use an external flash with your camera, the flash must have these two characteristics:
Note: The camera does not support Smart
Strobe functionality in an external flash.
It must be able to use auto flash operation (external flash sensor)
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that is, it must have and use
its own light sensor.
Its lens coverage must be at least 33mm.
To use the external flash, refer to the documentation that came with it. As a general rule, you will
need to dial-in the ISO speed and aperture settings of the camera on the external flash. You can find
the ISO speed setting in the Status screen of Capture mode (see “Viewing the Camera Status” on
page 21) and the aperture value on the status LCD in Capture mode (see “Using the Status LCD” on
page 12).
Note: The external flash is only supported in
the Manual exposure mode; it is not supported
in any of the other exposure modes.
Also note that there are no LCD icons to
indicate that the external flash is enabled, and
there are no flash modes associated with the
external flash.
To use an external flash:
1 Make sure the pop-up flash is down.
2 Set the exposure mode dial on the camera to Manual to enable the external flash feature.
The external flash is automatically enabled and cannot be disabled unless you change
exposure modes or pop up the built-in flash.
3 Attach the external flash unit to the hot shoe on top of the camera. Refer to the documentation
that came with the external flash to use it with the camera.