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 Post subject: SB-800 Firing Randomly
PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:30 am 
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Before I go to consider a repair, I would appreciate comments, experiences, etc. on an issue I noticed yesterday with a Nikon SB-800 flash. When mounted on the hot shoe (standard TTL mode), the flash was firing randomly without me releasing the camera shutter. Sometimes when I move the camera/flash around, it may also fire from time to time.

I changed batteries and no change in the situation!

What should I do?
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Any chance it was loose in the hotshoe? Did you move the camera when it was going off, or the camera was still and the flash was still "taking pictures" on its own?
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Check both the camera and the flash. My 20D had a loose shoe, and it only required 5min's with a screwdriver to fix it.
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could it be in strobe mode? or some neighbours have wireless triggers?
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Thanks for the replies this evening.

I did some reading which suggests it may be a hot shoe issue.

However, I did some testing between two camera bodies and two SB-800s I have. My problem occurs with only one particular pairing amongst the 4 possible pairings. I just plan to avoid this one particular problematic pairing.
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I had the same problem with my D200 and the 28-70 but it turned out to be the board in the flash had to be replaced. I'd get it fixed if you plan on using it for paid work... if you don't care maybe ride it out but it drove me nuts
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I'm having the same sort of behaviour with my SB-900's and D700's. I haven't been able to nail down with 100% certainty why/when it happens, but it appears to be exactly what this fellow is describing:

http://photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00Tqe0
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