topic Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000 in Alpha & NEX interchangeable lens cameras

How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

t.romaniv — Wed, 06 May 2015 10:59:17 GMT

Hello.

Can anybody explain me of how to disable a flash in any of P/A/S/M modes?

My Sony a6000 camera says me that I can't disable flash in those modes. But, why?

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Nobody-in-particular — Wed, 06 May 2015 16:52:18 GMT

There is information on page 52 of the user manual regarding turning the flash off but I am not sure if this is the solution for the modes you mention.

You can set the flash mode.
1. MENU → (Camera Settings) → [Flash Mode] → desired setting.
Menu item details Flash Off:
The flash does not operate.
Autoflash:
The flash works in dark environments or when shooting towards bright light.
Fill-flash (default setting):
The flash works every time you trigger the shutter.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Sun, 10 May 2015 20:13:29 GMT

I have the very same problem with my A6000. Doing underwater photography and obviously cannot manually push back the flash when I'm using manual mode with the uw-case. This is very inconvenient and planning to move away from Sony cameras if they cannot get the flash disabled from the menu in manual mode. Even Olymplus e-pm1 had this feature.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Sun, 10 May 2015 20:20:30 GMT

Dear "Nobody-in-particular"

Nope. The "Flash off" has been disabled from the menu in P/A/S/M modes - that is the problem!

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Thalamus. — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:57:08 GMT

Hi all,

welcome to the Sony User Community Forum..

No you are not doing anything wrong & unfortuately, as you have already discovered, there is not 'currently' an option in the settings to disable the pop-up flash when shooting in either P/A/S/M modes..

The best we can do is make a suggestion to the Sony engineers & I have included your comments above as examples of why the current option of manually closing the pop up flash is an issue..

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

t.romaniv — Fri, 22 May 2015 17:32:40 GMT

I think, this is realy stupid "feture" from Sony side... It makes me cry 😞

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:15:08 GMT

Unfortunatelly FW v2.0 does not solve this issue. Too bad!

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:52:13 GMT

Any news about enabling the "Flash-off" in P/A/S/M modes from MENU settings? MANUAL mode particularly - hello

Cheers, timojk

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

t.romaniv — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:42:45 GMT

Has anybody already resolved this issue?

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:06:31 GMT

Sony! It's time to solve this trivial issue which is causing the pain here! I cannot push the flash back while diving underwater with an uv-case.

Please enable disabling the flash at least in manual mode - otherwise I could not even call this manual mode.

Cheers,

+timo

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Thalamus. — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:29:59 GMT

Hi all,

the only feedback I have been able to get so far is that the design team is investigating, I'll see if I can get a further update..

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

prd2808 — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:57:08 GMT

Hi,

I am new to this community but not sure what the problem is, I have a A6000 and I set the flash to fiil in mode and it never pops up when using PASM modes, or am I misunderstanding the issue.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Thalamus. — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:43:29 GMT

Sounds interesting..

@prd2808 wrote:

Hi,

I am new to this community but not sure what the problem is, I have a A6000 and I set the flash to fiil in mode and it never pops up when using PASM modes, or am I misunderstanding the issue.

Can anyone please confirm if the suggestion above is indeed a suitable work around.?

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:16:33 GMT

Hi. You need to pop it up by the flash button on the first place. This topic is about disabling the flash from the menu after pop-up in manual modes.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

t.romaniv — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:32:32 GMT

It never popups automatically but it always flashes even if it is closed.

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Peter_S. — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:01:45 GMT

Hi timojk,

the only way to disable the flash in P/A/S/M modes is to keep it down in the camera body. This is the same behaviour as for all other SLT and system camera bodies from Sony, The flash will not pop-up automatically as it's mechanically locked. It can be release only by pressing the flash button.

We've forwarded your request to product design but haven't got any feedback up to now.

Anyway, maybe you can explain why you pop-out the flash when inserting the camera body to the housing. Is it by accident because the housing is too narrow? Or do you want to use the flash underwater? (from my point of view the integrated flash is too weak for underwater pictures - so better use some external flashes.

Would be happy to get some more details.

Thanks a lot in advance

Cheers

Peter

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:59:33 GMT

Hi.

While diving you may want to use the flash once in a while. Currently I need to decide before entering the water whether I use it or not. I cannot simply push it back while underwater.

Funny enough, on auto-mode you can disable the flash even after pop-up but not in manual mode 😊

Cheers,
Timojk

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Peter_S. — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 07:39:49 GMT

Hi Timojk,

Thanks for the additional information.

Since the power of the internal flash is quite weak I would recommend to use some external flashes - this might give yoe much better results. In addition it might also solve your issue.

Anyway, I've given some additional information to engineers and waiting for feedback now.

Have a nice day

Cheers

Peter

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

timojk — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:27:10 GMT

Hi. I know the flash is weak and I'm using external flash. Once I would not need a flash anymore I just turn the external off but the internal flash keeps destroying the images while diving. I actually try to use piece of dark plastic on the front of the internal flash but it's kind of lame way of denying actual problem - obviously it also consumes some battery for nothing.

Thanks for your reply

Cheers
Timojk

Re: How to disable flash? - Sony a6000

Peter_S. — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:57:43 GMT

Hi timojk,

Understand! Using a black sheet to cover the internal flash would have been the solution I would have offered as well when using external flashes to solve the issue currently.

As said the issue has been forwarded to engineering team but I can't tell you if or when there will be a solution to switch off the flash in the menu.

Cheers

Peter