 Michelle Ross |
HELP PLEASE!!! I just bought an off camera flash . . . ran one roll of film through my camera using it and it seemed to drain the batteries in my camera with just this one roll? Is this normal? or is something possibly wrong with my camera???
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Jon Close |
What camera and what flash? I can't remember if it's Minolta or Pentax, but one of made a compact accessory flash that did not have its own battery but instead drew from the camera's. If the flash has its own battery for power then its use should not have any effect on the camera's battery. Just a guess, but could be an incompatibility in the electronic communication if the flash is a different brand than the camera. I'm thinking a situation similar to some older Sigma lenses on newer Canon cameras where the camera's battery icon blinks (among other symptoms).
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Michelle Ross |
Well I was reading my camera book and it said sometimes the battery indicator will give a faulty reading . .. I put the batteries back in(I had tried some different ones) and today it gave me a full battery indication. WEIRD. . . the flash does have it's own batteries(Vivitar on a Minolta camera). . . so I couldn't figure out why it would have drained them so quickly . . .hopefully it was just a fluke. . . I freak out over junk like this . . . Thanks for your response!
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