Darkroom Dude

Not dark but black! The flash wasn't attached to the camera. I emphasise that a visible preview went black immediately upon setting the camera to manual. On Sunday morning, when I first posted, there was plenty of light but preview was black apart from the shooting information. It was NOT subject failure. Thanks for showing me the video. It related to flash on camera, not studio flash. Shooting in RAW, which we were, doesn't need a change to WB or colour temperature. All we wanted to do was to read the aperture requirement, set that on the camera with an appropriate shutter speed and get shooting. None of our lenses showed any difference. Did either of you pick up that the solution was to switch focusing from M to either C or S? Now what's that all about?

We've sorted out the solution, although I don't understand the problem. When we switched off A and onto the aperture icon on the lens and moved the shutter from A to any speed, the previously visible preview picture on LCD and/or EVF was switched off. However, the shooting information remained visible. The manually set aperture made no difference. We found that the focus switch on the front of the camera body was on M. Moving it to either C or S switcheswitched the preview back on. We don't understand why it happened but we are relieved to have found the solution. It had meant a lost night with studio flash, which is why the camera needed to be operated manually. If anyone knows why the camera does this, please tell. Thank you all for your help.

Thanks jerryy. That didn't work. To be clear, setting lens to the aperture icon and shutter to 250X (or any other manual speed) is like putting the lens cap on. Display information is visible on EVF/LCD but the subject is black.

Thanks jerryy. That didn't work. To be clear, setting lens to the aperture icon and shutter to 250X (or any other manual speed) is like putting the lens cap on. Display information is visible on EVF/LCD but the subject is black.

In 'Still' mode, lens off A to aperture icon, and shutter speed off A, the screen shows M for manual. No live view is available. What can I do? Is it a User Setting that I've activated/deactivated? Help, please. Peter