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Canon SX60 with Godox V860IIc flash (over/under exposed)

Started Jun 7, 2021 | Discussions thread
kli
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Re: Canon SX60 with Godox V860IIc flash (over/under exposed)
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mgrosh wrote:

I just purchased a Godox V860IIc flash for my Canon SX60 and started testing it out. At first i noticed that every photo was underexposed. It does flash but not at full power. The flash is in ETTL mode and have have tried the camera on multiple modes and settings.

Just me, but putting the camera in M and not using auto ISO takes a lot of guesswork out of the equation. If you do those two things, do you still get this behavior? What happens if you put the camera in P mode?

What really get me is that the Flash seems to either flash at very low power (underexposed)

Happens with dSLRs when using Av/Tv with flash, where the autoexposure modes are pretty much set up that flash will be for daylight fill if you have everything set to be automated. Only P mode will treat the flash like a pop-up flash and use it for main illumination in low light.

or full power (overexposed).

That happens if not all the pins are touching all the hotshoe contacts. When TTL communication isn't happening, the flash will always fire at full power. Check that the speedlight is seated fully forward in the hotshoe, and that the locking pin is in place.

Aside from all of this, Godox speedlights work with the Canon dSLR/mirrorless hotshoe. When it comes to fixed-lens compacts, 3rd-party flashes may not behave so well, as Canon apparently uses a different communication protocol with the Powershots than they do the dSLRs.

I remember getting a Yongnuo YN-568EX for my 50D. Worked beautifully. Did everything my 580EX did. On my Powershot G9, however, the 580EX worked fine, but the YN-685EX wouldn't even fire. It could also be you've hit one of those communication variant holes where Godox's reverse-engineering doesn't work.

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