Would anybody know if i can turn off the internal flash and connect one of my studio flashes to the nikon 990 or the oly 3030? i want to take a manual flash reading and set the camera exposure manually. i understand that both cameras have their own external flashes but i want to use my existing flashes. thanks in advance.

-- dan lindberg (dan.lindberg@swipnet.se), June 24, 2000

Answers

Get a cheap slave flash sensor and tape it in contact with the cameras flash, using black electricians tape. The tape stops the built-in flash from affecting the exposure.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), June 27, 2000.

You can buy a Nikon bracket/cord connector (they don't sell the cord sepately) that ends in a hotshoe. Buy a hotshoe to household sync cord. And when you disable the built in flash, be sure the external flash is enabled (2 separate settings). Manually setting the aperture is more difficult than it should be. Nikon warns against potential high sync voltage, but I am using the 990 w/ a Norman 2000 and have had no problems.

-- Phil Shima (pshima@etr.org), June 29, 2000.