That pop-up flash button!

[Imageon]

I finally got fed up with the flash popping up when I didn't want it to and came up with this.
I used a piece a adhesive soft rubber pad a 16th of an inch thick.
Now the button won't push in till I want it to.
Mike

 

[KmH]

"Necessity is the mother of invention." :thumbup:

 

[DorkSterr]

I kinda miss having that button. I guess you really don't know what you have until it's gone.

 

[amolitor]

The D800 has a built-in flash? Holy crap, that's just WRONG.

 

[Imageon]

The D800 has a built-in flash? Holy crap, that's just WRONG.

Yep. I too was surprised when it came out with one on that camera.
But
I have found it pretty handy. I use it in Commander mode with my SB 200 Rs and the Metz 15-MS-1 flashes.
Mike

 

[Patrice]

The D800 has a built-in flash? Holy crap, that's just WRONG.

Why is that wrong?

Nearly all of Nikon's DSLR's except for the top tier pro models, ie D1,D2,D3,D4, have a pop-up flash. One of the things (among others) that separate the consumer and the semi-pro bodies from the real hard core pro bodies.

The pop-ups are convenient as a make-do fill flashes and as flash commanders, but it's another thing that can break pretty easily and also let in some dirt and moisture.

 

[amolitor]

I had assumed that the D800 was a flagship of sorts, and thus wouldn't have the pop up flash.

 

[480sparky]

I had assumed that the D800 was a flagship of sorts, .........

That would be the D4.

 

[jamesbjenkins]

Nearly all of Nikon's DSLR's except for the top tier pro models, ie D1,D2,D3,D4, have a pop-up flash.

That's because the D3s and D4 don't need a flash, they just crank the ISO until midnight looks like the noonday sun.

 

[KmH]

The D800D800E is a Prosumer grade Nikon camera.

 

[Ysarex]

I had assumed that the D800 was a flagship of sorts, and thus wouldn't have the pop up flash.

The strangling tentacles of fauxtography continue to spread like a kudzu vine in the summer sun.

Joe

 

[Tee]

The D800D800E is a Prosumer grade Nikon camera.

....used by millions of professionals.

 

[runnah]

 

[Ysarex]

Oh boy! I'll start. In the college photo lab where I used to work (retired now) there was a bulletin board on the wall as you entered the facility. Many long years ago I got a beat up old 35mm P&S and a big 4 inch spike and I nailed the camera to the wall right through the bleepin' pop-up flash. Whenever a student turned in photos taken with a similar abomination attached to their camera I would take them to the bulletin board and offer to modify their camera in the same way so it wouldn't such miserably awful photos in the future.

Joe

 

[amolitor]

If they did it again, did you nail the student to the bulletin board with a similar spike?