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SB600 - Wide Area AF Assist not working.

  • 14-08-2009 9:21pm
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    CabanSail
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    When I was at Charleville Castle I noticed that the Wide Area AF Assist on my SB600 Flash wasn't working (it's the matrix of red lights that come from the front of the flash to help AF in low light) Since then I have been looking through all the menu options on the Flash & D300 to see if I had set something to turn it off.

    When I turned the AF Assist off in the flash then the normal one on the D300 would work. Other than that I could not find anything. I did a reset to defaults & still no joy. I was coming to the conclusion that the SB600 had developed a fault.

    Tonight I got my old D70S back & thought I would stick the SB600 onto it to see if it would work properly. A long shot but it did, the AF Assist was fine on the D70S. So then I put it back on the D300 & nothing. I then took the Lens (18-55 VR) off the D70 & put it on the D300 & the AF Assist works again. Put the Sigma 10-20 back on & it stops working. Put the Sigma 10-20 onto the D70S with the SB600 & it works fine.

    I think it must be a fault in the D300. Very weird indeed. At least the D300 still has about 18 months of warranty left.


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