d90 flash

vinniemac3 · Jan 19, 2010

ok so i called up today and unfortunately they dont have any more flashes in

. but i am getting a refund and was told to trash the flash. so now im flashless once again

Darkhunter139 · Jan 19, 2010

I was able to fix the one that did not fire so I now have two working flashes

Sachphotography · Jan 19, 2010

Darkhunter139 said:
I was able to fix the one that did not fire so I now have two working flashes

What was the issue? Mine worked fine but another guy that I know bought one and his is DOA. So what was up?

Darkhunter139 · Jan 19, 2010

I opened up the top of the flash (Unscrewed the 4 screws near the top by the actual light)

Then I unscrewed two more screws that held the actually light and noticed a broken piece of plastic loose in the housing. I took the plastic peices out (that were clearly broken), popped the batteries back in (without reassembling the unit just to test it) and tried firing the flash. It worked!!! I then re assembled it and everything seems to be working fine, not sure what that plastic peice was for but it was obviously interfering with something.

Darkhunter139 · Jan 20, 2010

Is there a way to fire one of these flashes off camera as a slave to the one I have on camera wirelessly? I am searching around and cant really seem to find anything that tells you how to do that but I remember someone mentioning you could

Sachphotography · Jan 21, 2010

Darkhunter139 said:
Is there a way to fire one of these flashes off camera as a slave to the one I have on camera wirelessly? I am searching around and cant really seem to find anything that tells you how to do that but I remember someone mentioning you could

YES. I have been playing around with it all day. I finally got my new camera in( after being cameraless for over week!!!!) and All you have to do is hit the mode button till it shows the little antenna looking thing(the last option on the right.
TTL---M--MULTI--MODEL--(little flash antenna thingy here)
and thats it. Hit the (frq) button to set the power
1/1..1/2..1/4 all the way to 1/64.

That is all you have to do. I did a set up with 5 of these fired with my on board flash and wow...that was bright..

Darkhunter139 · Jan 21, 2010

Yeah I figured it out last night and was playing around with them. They are awesome!!

timfrommass · Jan 24, 2010

OK so I hate asking this question and feeling like a complete newb. I read the D90 owners manual and found nothing... the flash came with no owner's manual. How do I use this in TTL mode?? When I put it in TTL mode my camera simply won't take a picture... sorry if I'm being an idiot

-tim

Darkhunter139 · Jan 24, 2010

What flash?

timfrommass · Jan 24, 2010

Sachphotography said:
Quantaray 531660884 DSZ Series PZ-1 TTL Power Zoom - eBay (item 390086843199 end time Jan-23-10 23:24:58 PST)

Check it out^^^^. It is tha same as the Promaster 7000m I own. I bought two of these today. It is a great flash.

The one that has been discussed for the better part of the last 2 pages

-tim

Darkhunter139 · Jan 24, 2010

You have to shoot it on manual, the newer Nikon Cameras use iTTL. Its really not that hard to use it in manual mode though just play around with it.

timfrommass · Jan 24, 2010

Well that sucks

-tim

Derrel · Jan 24, 2010

timfrommass said:
Sachphotography said:

Quantaray 531660884 DSZ Series PZ-1 TTL Power Zoom - eBay (item 390086843199 end time Jan-23-10 23:24:58 PST)

Check it out^^^^. It is tha same as the Promaster 7000m I own. I bought two of these today. It is a great flash.

Click to expand...

The one that has been discussed for the better part of the last 2 pages

-tim

I ordered four of these flashes from TechFor Less. I wanted two for Canon EOS, two for Nikon. The screwed up the order, did not give me a dexription of the order on their eBay PayPal page, shipped me FOUR for Nikon, and ALL FOUR FLASHES ARE DEAD ON ARRIVAL and useless. NON-working, clearly used flashes, two pretty scratched up. FOur of four-dead and NOT working in any form,whatsoever. No TEST button firing, no hot shoe firing, no triggering when on a Nikon camera. FOUR-DEAD-USELESS ,totally JUNK-FLASHES from TechFor Less. That is what my order turned out to be...

Four clearly defective, dead-on-arrival used flashes that will whine a bit, but which will not flash. Batteries cross checked with Canon 580-II and Nikon Sb 800...batteries power the anon and Nikon flash, but the four flashes sold to me by TechFor Less were dead...dead...dead. Worst on-line buying experience I have ever had.