Swampy
October 14th, 2003, 07:28 PM
So, I pick up my new strobo tonight that I picked up on Saturday along with a Nikon SC-17 cable. Put the camera on the strobo, put my Metz 54 MZ-3 on the strobo and attach the SC-17 to the S2. Power on the flash, then the S2 and while I was messing with the shutter speed/aperture, the Metz fired. I thought. Wow. That was weird. Set up to shoot some stuff, and I got a blinking Ee error on the S2 and the Metz's "OK" light on the back was lit solid and wouldn't go out.
The camera was facing flat in the strobo, normal position. Now, after power cycling everything a few times, the camera and flash come up. I'm holding upright and everything is good for over a minute. I turn the camera/strobo sideways so the flash is on my right and in 5 seconds, the "OK" light goes solid and I have the Ee error on the S2 again. Turn it back right side up and power cycle, everything is ok. Over and over it does this when I turn it on the left side. Turn it on the right and it's fine still.
I start playing with connections with the camera in the upright position and everything is fine. shaking the cable. Tugging lightly on the cable, connector to the S2 and the flash base on the other side of the cable. Everything is fine. But still, when I turn it on it's left side, it goes Ee again. After fooling around with all of this for 30 minutes, shaking the cable actually starts to make the S2 toggle between in and out between normal and Ee. It stops after a few minutes of cable inspection again. Couldn't narrow it down to any portion of the cable or the ends.
You're thinking bad cable maybe? I can yank on it everywhich way right now and it's fine. Maybe some loose piece of something shorting the flash out inside the flash perhaps? I can power the flash off the camera/SC-17 and shake it all around in every position with no issues. Maybe something with the camera? Don't think so either. The Metz works fine again on the camera itself.
So, now, after all of this, everything appears to be working fine. But. What the heck happened? May never know I suppose. If it pops up again, I'll, uh, I dunno since I tried everything I could think of already. heh. Ideas are welcome in case it should happen again. I'm going to shoot some for a little while shortly and we'll see if it does it again though.
The camera was facing flat in the strobo, normal position. Now, after power cycling everything a few times, the camera and flash come up. I'm holding upright and everything is good for over a minute. I turn the camera/strobo sideways so the flash is on my right and in 5 seconds, the "OK" light goes solid and I have the Ee error on the S2 again. Turn it back right side up and power cycle, everything is ok. Over and over it does this when I turn it on the left side. Turn it on the right and it's fine still.
I start playing with connections with the camera in the upright position and everything is fine. shaking the cable. Tugging lightly on the cable, connector to the S2 and the flash base on the other side of the cable. Everything is fine. But still, when I turn it on it's left side, it goes Ee again. After fooling around with all of this for 30 minutes, shaking the cable actually starts to make the S2 toggle between in and out between normal and Ee. It stops after a few minutes of cable inspection again. Couldn't narrow it down to any portion of the cable or the ends.
You're thinking bad cable maybe? I can yank on it everywhich way right now and it's fine. Maybe some loose piece of something shorting the flash out inside the flash perhaps? I can power the flash off the camera/SC-17 and shake it all around in every position with no issues. Maybe something with the camera? Don't think so either. The Metz works fine again on the camera itself.
So, now, after all of this, everything appears to be working fine. But. What the heck happened? May never know I suppose. If it pops up again, I'll, uh, I dunno since I tried everything I could think of already. heh. Ideas are welcome in case it should happen again. I'm going to shoot some for a little while shortly and we'll see if it does it again though.