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Olympus Fl50R and GX7 not firing

Started Feb 13, 2017 | Questions thread
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RFamaGX7 New Member • Posts: 5
Olympus Fl50R and GX7 not firing

Hi,

I saw many questions and discussions about the olympus flashes on Panasonic body, but yet none seem to correspond to my problem....

I have the Olympus Fl50-R and I used to mount it on my loyal Lumix GX7

Looks wrong but for using it years before it's compatible

I used it like a year ago and then started to experiment some fast primes so I kept the flash away for a time.

But one day I ordered new batteries for it (Eneloop ones) triggered the flash unmounted, seemed to work fine, reload faster thant it did in my memory (and probably cause i used dumb batteries)

Then I mounted it on my GX7 and *drums roll*......... I can't fire the flash when it's mounted !

The Slave mode works fine , the flash recognise the lens, the aperture, the focus distance, it boots automatically when i boot my camera, shuts down with my camera also, I got the little blinking flash icon on my camera, everything REALLY seem to work fine until i press the shutter button and the flash doesn't fire.... the camera was also hoping to fire the flash so the image i get everytime is seriously underexposed...

;;;Everything looks fine .....

Communication between flash and camera seem to work great (I can even hear the flash move back and forth when I zoom)

Do anyone have an idea what's the matter with this lovely flash ?

(I already tried to reset all my camera settings to be sure no parameters messed with the flash triggering)

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