external flash issue

[namiam]

I have a Sony R1 with a HVL-F32x external flash. Suddenly, the external doesn't work anymore. My settings in the menu are as when it worked before. I have cleaned the shoe fine. The flash still works when I press the "test" button and "modeling" button on the flash though.

Any ideas?

T.I.A.

 

[Big Mike]

Double check to make sure that the flash is fully seated on the hotshoe.

 

[namiam]

sorry about posting in the wrong section.

I have triple, even quadruple checked that the flash is fully seated in the hotshoe. The flash says "connected" when the camera is on. When I move the flash around the hotshoe just a tad, SOMETIMES it loses connection. But anyways, when it says "connected" the flash does not function correctly.

 

[table1349]

Have you by chance disabled external flash firing. Most bodies have something similar that will tun off flash firing, and will usually kill the hotshoe as well.

 

[namiam]

I have it setup just like it has on the owner's manual for the flash and the camera, and no flash still. I have also tightened the flash in the hotshoe pretty tight, but still no flash!

 

[KmH]

There are only 2 possibilities left:

1. The body is not geneerating a trigger signal
2. or the speedlight doesn't detect the trigger signal from the body.

Time to get out the multimeter to check there is in fact a trigger signal from the body, or send both in to Sony.

 

[Flash Harry]

have you chosen a mode such as "program" which has disabled flash? H