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Author:  Natia [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:21 am ]
Post subject:  Abr800

I took delivery of my ABR800 yesterday. I set up, tested it, worked fine.

Today I tried shooting vertically, while holding it has been well documented, my issue was the flash not firing correctly.

From what I can tell If I rotate the camera anti clockwise one of the flash tubes doesn't fire or if that's figment of my imagination the images are very dark compared to the same exposure in a landscape format.

If I rotate the camera clock wise (very uncomfortable.) The exposure is correct.

Is this a common issue, am I missing something very simple?

I almost always shoot vertical for my work, is there a workaround I can employ if this issue isn't solvable?

Many thanks

Nate.

p.s

my setup is a d800 w/o the battery pack and a nikon 28-70 2.8

Author:  Technical Support [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Abr800

Are you rotating the flash and camera, or just the camera? How are you triggering the flash?
If you take a sample photo in a mirror at a low exposure, you should be able to see the tubes.
Are you certain the camera settings are not inadvertently changing?

Author:  Natia [ Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Abr800

Hey,

Thanks for the reply, I'm rotating both, I'll give the mirror idea a shot.

the flash is being triggered using the bundled sync.

I'm certain the camera settings are not changing.

I've found a temporary work around, it does involve changing the flash setting if I'm using it Vertically and upping the power about a stop and a half.

Will let u know how the mirror test goes.

Thanks again.

Nate

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