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I was using a Fuji XT-5 with an XPro II trigger. The camera started to take a long time to display the image after I'd taken the picture. After a couple of shots the model told me the lights had stopped working. Turns out the trigger batteries were flat. I replaced them and things went back to normal. I then turned the trigger off and the problem came back.

Obviously the camera is detecting that there's an umpowered trigger or speedlight in the hotshoe but why would taht change its behaviour in this way? Do other Fuji models behave like this? Do other brands of camera do this?
 
Interesting. My Nikon DSLR does not behave this way. Somehow your camera senses the trigger on/off then acts that way. I dont know Fuji - is there a setting you can change to alter the behavior. It’s repeatable so not a fluke of sun spot activity.
 
Did you try your backup camera? Did it do the same thing?
 
tugwilson said:
I was using a Fuji XT-5 with an XPro II trigger. The camera started to take a long time to display the image after I'd taken the picture.
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Weird.
tugwilson said:
After a couple of shots the model told me the lights had stopped working.
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This sounds to me like it could be an overheating issue with the flash. I ran into this doing step & repeats with an AD200 recently. It surprised me, because I was at 1/4 power, using the bare head (in a closed-back shoot-thru umbrella) and not machine-gunning, but, I'd done 150-200 shots and that was enough to trigger protection.
tugwilson said:
Turns out the trigger batteries were flat. I replaced them and things went back to normal. I then turned the trigger off and the problem came back.

Obviously the camera is detecting that there's an umpowered trigger or speedlight in the hotshoe but why would taht change its behaviour in this way? Do other Fuji models behave like this? Do other brands of camera do this?
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I wonder if there are two issues here, one possible flash overheating, and something else maybe involving the camera's buffer?

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Jacques Cornell said:
tugwilson said:
MikeInOr said:
Did you try your backup camera? Did it do the same thing?
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No because `i fixed th problem by replacing to batteries in the trigger.
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But you said that after you'd replaced the batteries, you turned the trigger off and on and the problem came back.
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Yes and I theorized that the camera was sensing the unpowered trigger and behaving differently. As I was in the middle of the shoot I was happy that if the trigger was powered on things would work as normal. I did not want to spend any more time on investigations at that point.

I have subsequently thought some more about this and I don't think I was right about the cause. What was happening was that the camera was displaying a black image (because the flas wasn't triggered) and then showing me a live view of the subject. As I was not aware that the flash wasn't firing I misinterpreted that as it taking a long time to process the image.
 
tugwilson said:
Jacques Cornell said:
tugwilson said:
MikeInOr said:
Did you try your backup camera? Did it do the same thing?
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No because `i fixed th problem by replacing to batteries in the trigger.
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But you said that after you'd replaced the batteries, you turned the trigger off and on and the problem came back.
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Yes and I theorized that the camera was sensing the unpowered trigger and behaving differently. As I was in the middle of the shoot I was happy that if the trigger was powered on things would work as normal. I did not want to spend any more time on investigations at that point.

I have subsequently thought some more about this and I don't think I was right about the cause. What was happening was that the camera was displaying a black image (because the flas wasn't triggered) and then showing me a live view of the subject. As I was not aware that the flash wasn't firing I misinterpreted that as it taking a long time to process the image.
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That makes sense. You had Auto Review on? I usually do when making lit portraits.
 
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