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Panasonic GX7 and Nikon SB 700 slave flash incompatibility question

Started Sep 27, 2015 | Questions thread
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Panasonic GX7 and Nikon SB 700 slave flash incompatibility question

Hi everyone,

maybe someone has some experience with this, I haven't been able to use the Speedlight flash as an optical slave using the GX7 on-camera flash as master. They should work in optical mode , and they certainly seem to, but I think the speedlight goes off some milliseconds too soon before the 1st curtain. I would have expected it the other way. Might there be some sort of ttl preflash that the on-board camera does and triggers it too soon ? Might be something very short, it certainly isn't visible, I only see one flash, but the photo is dark whatever I do - I tried 1st curtain, 2nd, red eyes, everything.

Maybe someone has a suggestion, is there anything i can do about this ? I don't need any fancy highspeed stuff, just for it to light the scene

thanks

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