[Leica] OT question: can't fire flash on Fuji X E1 when using LM3rd party adapter

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

That's a useful tip Howard. I'd forgotten about flash adjustment on the Fuji 
X100S as I tend to think of it as my handy go anywhere compact rather than 
the ball of advanced technology it really is. I tend to leave it on a manual 
setting for daylight - F8, 250s, and auto ISO between 200 and 6400.

For instance, I was in the pub last night (post camera club consumption), 
and, as usual, had the X100S with me in my coat pocket, and, camera people 
being camera people, they wanted to play with it. But, photos taken, they 
show the basic flash setting can be too strong especially when the situation 
is very dark.

Ted, I know we shouldn't be talking about flash and I apologise :-)

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 8:10 AM
Subject: [Leica] OT question: can't fire flash on Fuji X E1 when using LM3rd 
party adapter


> Jeff,
> Perhaps you have silent mode turned off. As Jim mentioned with silent mode 
> on the flash won't work with any lenses - fuji or otherwise.
> Go to Set up menu - page one and turn silent mode off. That should blacken 
> the flash mode on page 5 of the shooting menu and then you
> can experiment with forced flash, slow synchro and 2nd curtain sync and 
> see what works best. I expect forced flash will be the most likely to 
> work.
> I set flash compensation to -1 to reduce the amount of light and make the 
> picture more natural - on those very rare times (Uncle Ted!!) when I use 
> flash.
> Let's hear how you make out.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 00:22:30 +0000 (GMT)
>>From: Jeff Williams <jeffwill_nz at yahoo.fr>
> Subject: [Leica] OT question: can't fire flash on Fuji X-E1 when using
> LM 3rd party adapter
> To: "lug at leica-users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> I am using a 35mm voigtlander lens on a Fuji X-E1 and I cannot get the 
> fash to work. In the menu the flash option is grayed out and I cannot 
> select the option to force fire the flash. I am using a third party 
> adapter. Has anyone managed to get the flash to work with third party LM 
> adapters? I can't get a hot shoe mounted flash to fire either. Please 
> don't suggest I read the manual.. it has nothing useful to help solve this 
> problem!
> ?
> Thanks in advance for anyhelp from the Leica lenses on X-E1 or X-Pro1 
> crowd.. you know who you are :-)
> ?
> Amities
> Jeff le kiwi
>
>
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