Hi people, I was hoping you may be able to help me out.
I wanted to have a cheap rig dedicated solely to macro shots.
I have
d50 body
sunpak pf30x flash and hot shoe cord (cheap but compatible with d50)
macro lens with extension rings which makes it manual (doesn't meter etc)
Basically, I can't get the flash to fire from the hot shoe when I have the extension rings in the system.
It is obviously something to do with the relationship between the camera and lens but I can't work out a way to override it. The in-built flash shoots fine when the extension rings are attached, which means I could do a master/slave flash set-up IF my cheap flash was compatible with that :s . Is there any way to get this flash to fire? I don't care about metering or anything at this point in time, I just need it to blast some light when I press the trigger . Perhaps I need to get a flash that supports non-TTL? My camera is in manual mode with ring aperture
Google isn't helping so can anybody shed some light on this problem for me?
Thanks so much
I wanted to have a cheap rig dedicated solely to macro shots.
I have
d50 body
sunpak pf30x flash and hot shoe cord (cheap but compatible with d50)
macro lens with extension rings which makes it manual (doesn't meter etc)
Basically, I can't get the flash to fire from the hot shoe when I have the extension rings in the system.
It is obviously something to do with the relationship between the camera and lens but I can't work out a way to override it. The in-built flash shoots fine when the extension rings are attached, which means I could do a master/slave flash set-up IF my cheap flash was compatible with that :s . Is there any way to get this flash to fire? I don't care about metering or anything at this point in time, I just need it to blast some light when I press the trigger . Perhaps I need to get a flash that supports non-TTL? My camera is in manual mode with ring aperture
Google isn't helping so can anybody shed some light on this problem for me?
Thanks so much