430EX II is stuck on this strobe like effect. Please help.

[fenderphoto]

Please help me fix this issue. My Canon 430EX II is on this strobe like effect. I used to be able to press the pilot button and it would pop off like any other flash. Now when I press it it strobes for about a second and always does it. It doesn't do it when attached to the camera but I often do long exposures and walk around and pop off the flash to fill in certain areas of the shot.

 

[pgriz]

Check your setting for Custom Function 2. If set to 1 or 2 it will fire on the pressing the test firing button. (user manual, pg. 21).

 

[compasiune11]

I sugest you send your flash to Canon service, it's the best way to fix this problem.

 

[Braineack]

Check your setting for Custom Function 2. If set to 1 or 2 it will fire on the pressing the test firing button. (user manual, pg. 21).

This. Turn off the modeling flash function.

I sugest you send your flash to Canon service, it's the best way to fix this problem.

what awful advice...

 

[FotosbyMike]

Sorry my mistake, it is not available with the 430EX II unless it is used as a Slave flash to a Master flash that has this feature. Do you have a master flash or wireless unit acting as master?

 

[Braineack]

Sorry my mistake, it is not available with the 430EX II unless it is used as a Slave flash to a Master flash that has this feature. Do you have a master flash or wireless unit acting as master?

did you post in the wrong thread?

 

[FotosbyMike]

did you post in the wrong thread?

I added the wrong info about the 430EX II having Multi mode so I deleted it and added something different.

 

[astroNikon]

Luckily on Nikon flashes the Modeling Flash is a different button.
On the canon you have to set a setting as mentioned above.

If you ever want to take a photo of, say a bouncing ball. You can do a long exposure, use the modeling flash and get the ball at various stages of bouncing.

 

[SnappingShark]

Is your D.O.F preview button pressed down at all? Probably not, but sometimes that keeps it on

 

[KmH]

I bet the OP figured out a couple of years ago.
The thread was started - May 22, 2014.

 

[SnappingShark]

Oh yeah lol - for some reason it was marked as a new post for me - d'oh! Well, let's hope the OP has!