jack_billings

<p>Hello everyone,<br> I am running an iMac with the Mavericks OS. My photo editing software is LR5. This setup is doing all I need so I really have no complaints.</p> <p>Recently I started wondering if maybe I shouldn't upgrade to LR6 before Adobe makes it part of the CC and I'm forced to pay $9.99 forever to use the software. When I went to see if the software worked with Mavericks, I found out no. I'd have to upgrade to the latest Mac OS.</p> <p>See. Here's thing. I like Mavericks. It is stable. Does all I need it to do. And I absolutely <em>hate</em> being forced updates by Apple yearly. Before you know it your system is running at a crawl not because it is really that old and slow, but b/c Apple has pushed out OS updates that your system can't handle. Anyway...</p> <p>My question really is this: Is LR 6 worth the hassle of upgrading my Mac OS? Or is this a case of "If it ain't broke, don't mess with it?".</p> <p>Thanks.</p>

Thanks Kari. I haven't been doing any off camera flash recently so I'm not sure if we have managed to solve the issue. I turned off flash going sleep feature, so hopefully that will solve my problems. What I need to do is try some off-camera shooting again to see everything is working fine.

<p>@Kari Oinonen<br> Thanks for the help. I do have a follow up question though. What is the FV-lock? I am not familiar with this term.</p> <p>To date, what I have been doing is using the pop-up flash on my D750 to act as the commander. I am under the impression that if I turn this flash way down that it can be used to trigger the SB-700.</p> <p>But in writing with you here, it does sound like the pop-up flash is drawing too much power, thus preventing the SB-700 from firing. That would explain the issues with the cycling time and the flash/lighting bolt I'm seeing inside the display. I'll have to see about turning the on-board flash down to nothing. Or at least as having it output as little power as possible.</p>

<p>@Kari Oinonen<br> <br />What is this 'master flash mode' you speak of? I am not familiar with it. Right now I am using the pop-up flash as a commander to command the SB-700.</p> <p>What is strange though is that I was able to repeat the issue while on-site by taking the flash out of the cold shoe and firing my D750 in close proximity to the flash. The flash would go off two or three times before shutting down for 5~10 seconds. Then the lighting bolt would return to the camera viewfinder and the flash would fire two or three time before the whole process would repeat. In this instance there was nothing interfering with the pop-up flash.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone for taking the time to get back to me.</p> <p><br /> @Rodeo Joe Thanks for the tips about what to do. Perhaps the flash is going to sleep. I will take a look at disabling the sleep option. Off the top of your head, do you know how to do this? I don't ever recall enabling this function in the first place. As for the strobe overheating, I wish it was that simple. But it isn't. I took the flash off the cold shoe and held it close to the camera. I'd fire off two pictures, maybe three, then the strobe would stop working. About 5 ~ 10 seconds later, the strobe would fire again.</p> <p>In looking at the back, the temperature meter never rose or moved. Also, at first I thought you might be right about the popup flash being accidentally pushed down a bit, but when I took did my test of holding the flash close to the camera, and still experiencing the same issue, I realized that couldn't be the case.</p> <p>@Kari Oinonen Thanks for the help. Interesting about the flash icon in the viewfinder relating to popup flash. Now I'm wondering if the issue isn't the SB-700, but rather the recycle times on the popup flash. But that doesn't make sense as I have the power on the popup flash turned way down.</p>

<p>Hello there,<br> I'm hoping someone can help me diagnose a problem I had the other night. Here's my setup:</p> <ul> <li>Nikon D750</li> <li>SB-700, off camera in a cold shoe, with (new) Energizer AA Alkaline batteries</li> <li>Shooting in manual mode, at 1/200 at f5.6 or f8</li> <li>Flash output was 1/8 to 1/16 depending</li> </ul> <p>Now here's what's strange.<br> I'd be shooting and the flash would be firing, then it would suddenly stop. In looking though the viewfinder, the lightening bolt would go away and I could no longer communicate with the flash. I'd push the shutter and nothing. I had to wait for the lightening bolt to return before I could resume shooting. This might be anywhere for 10 to 15 seconds. Then I could take two or three shots and again before the problem repeated.<br> Some other notes:</p> <ul> <li>I was not shooting anywhere near capacity of the flash</li> <li>I was always in line of sight of the flash, never being more than 2 or 3 feet away from the unit</li> <li>The batteries were new</li> </ul> <p>So my question is this. Have any of you experienced this before? And if so, how did you solve the problem?<br> Thank you.</p>