nigelb Posted March 6, 2010 Share #1 Â Posted March 6, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well for a while I thought my D2 was going on holiday to Leica UK after just seven weeks in my posession. While shooting yesterday I was aware I was having a problem. I was in aperure priority, my usual resting place, but realised I was not getting shutter speeds above 1/250 sec. Lower was OK but not higher, even though I was shooting at f2 and f2.8 in bright light the shutter speed never went above 1/250. What happened instead was that on half pressing the shutter, the aperture would jump up to f8 or so even though set to f2 on the lens. At this point I was thinking the worst. Â Decided to take a further look this morning - same. Did a camera reset in case a peculiar option had been accidentaly selected - same. Wondered whether it was something to do with flash sync speed, went to pop up the flash and it wouldn't. Really scratching my head now. Removed the Olympus hot shoe cover that I put on it last week and the flash popped up - lightbulb goes on in my head!! Â If you put on an external flashgun there is an interlock which prevents the internal flash popping up and.....it also sets flash sync speed. The same happens if you slide a hotshoe cover in - the camera thinks there is always an external flash fitted and goes into flash mode - DOH!! Â Wow, really releived that nothing actually wrong, I was preparing myself for a big repair bill but my beloved D2 lives on...... Â So if you find a hotshoe cover in your box of bits - leave it there. Â Nigel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wilfredo Posted March 7, 2010 Share #2 Â Posted March 7, 2010 Thanks for the tip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
koray Posted March 7, 2010 Share #3 Â Posted March 7, 2010 Same happened to me! :-) Â K. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
integrale Posted March 8, 2010 Share #4 Â Posted March 8, 2010 There is a work-around if you would like to use a flash shoe cover: Change flash setting to no flash (or always off or whatever - I don't have the camera at hand). This will liberate you from the limitations imposed by the camera detecting an apparent flash in the hot shoe. Â If you would ike to use the flash (I never do), just remove the cover and you can use flash again... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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