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External flash Sony 58 + SYK-6 flash remote controller not work on NX20

Started Apr 5, 2019 | Questions
Faith Yeung Contributing Member • Posts: 600
External flash Sony 58 + SYK-6 flash remote controller not work on NX20

Initially I used the setup (Sony 58 flash with SYK-6) on my Nikon 1 V2. It works.

I think it shall work on my NX20 as well. However, it dosen't. The external flash can be triggered by the pop-up flash of NX20. However, the picture/photo does not light up. It seems they cannot be synchronized.

Anyone tried similar setup? Any advices?

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otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: External flash Sony 58 + SYK-6 flash remote controller not work on NX20

The problem is that the NX flash fires before the exposure to meter the scene and then fires when thr exposure occurs. If your optical trigger doesnt have a way to ignore pre-flash it will fire at the wrong time.
IIRC SYK6 doesn't have any buttons/switches.
I think you cannot force the flash on nx20 to not fire pre-flash so the only solution is to get a trigger that supports pre-flash or to find a tiny manual flash to mount on nx20 (manual flashes will fire only once).

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OP Faith Yeung Contributing Member • Posts: 600
Re: External flash Sony 58 + SYK-6 flash remote controller not work on NX20

otto k wrote:

The problem is that the NX flash fires before the exposure to meter the scene and then fires when thr exposure occurs. If your optical trigger doesnt have a way to ignore pre-flash it will fire at the wrong time.
IIRC SYK6 doesn't have any buttons/switches.
I think you cannot force the flash on nx20 to not fire pre-flash so the only solution is to get a trigger that supports pre-flash or to find a tiny manual flash to mount on nx20 (manual flashes will fire only once).

Thanks. Apart from the pop-up flash, I tried the SEF 20A flash as well. However, there is no way to disable the TTL of pop-up and 20A flash. The Sony flash cannot syn with the camera.

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