Loose hotshoe in Nikon Posted February 8, 2012 Hi all Ok so ive had this issue with my trusted D3000 and sb700. The flash would randomly change settings, fire at random, then not fire at all. Auto zoom works then it doesnt or the flash would insist I use it in manual mode only, by flashing an "M" and showing a down arrow. It would also evidently mess with the ttl resulting in over or under exposure. I fixed it by taking a sturdy pair of pliars and GENTLY squeezing the hotshoe edges towards each other. Effectively slightly bending the two ridges down, The flash is now sitting very tight (you can feel when you mount and dismount it) but Ive had no more weird issues. Just be very very careful and apply very little pressure. Also use some sort of material as a buffer between your hotshoe and the plairs, I used the strap of my camera bag. I hope this helps someone out there.
Loose hotshoe
in Nikon
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Hi all
Ok so ive had this issue with my trusted D3000 and sb700.
The flash would randomly change settings, fire at random, then not fire at all. Auto zoom works then it doesnt or the flash
would insist I use it in manual mode only, by flashing an "M" and showing a down arrow. It would also evidently mess with
the ttl resulting in over or under exposure.
I fixed it by taking a sturdy pair of pliars and GENTLY squeezing the hotshoe edges towards each other. Effectively
slightly bending the two ridges down,
The flash is now sitting very tight (you can feel when you mount and dismount it) but Ive had no more weird issues.
Just be very very careful and apply very little pressure. Also use some sort of material as a buffer between your hotshoe
and the plairs, I used the strap of my camera bag.
I hope this helps someone out there.