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Chapter 10
External flash (Cont.)
3
Turn on the external flash.
● The mode for the external flash is TTL-
AUTO.
● When the shutter button is pressed
halfway, the external flash begins
communicating with the camera and
automatically switches to TTL-AUTO.
4
Press the (flash mode) button to
select the camera’s flash mode (P. 78).
Flash mode button
● If close-up pictures are overexposed, try using the main flash by itself.
● When the main flash and the FL-40 are used together, the main flash is
used as the compensating light source. This means that if the amount of
light from the FL-40 is insufficient (beyond its working range), the resulting
pictures may be underexposed.
1
Mount an external flash on the flash
bracket, then fasten it to the camera's
tripod socket and connect the flash
bracket and the camera's 5-pin
external flash socket using the bracket
cable.
External flashes (commercially available) can also be used with the exclusive
FL-BK01 (optional) and FL-CB01 bracket cable (optional) when the camera’s
mode dial is set to A/S/M/ .
For details on compatible commercially available external flashes, refer to the
next page.
Using commercially available external flashes
5-pin external flash socket
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