X-Pro1 + Flash = Ouch!

[MrSteveVee]

I've been a Nikon user for many years,  I don't upgrade often and I am current using and still enjoying the D300. However I have always wanted a rangefinder and last year when the prices dropped and the offers were out for for the X-Pro1 and 2 lens combo I purchased one along with a flash to compliment it.
Great little camera I was blown away with how well the high ISO was compared to my older camera and as such, found that I hardly ever used the flash as the images are just so good at higher ISO.
Later I found a tutorial that explained how the OVF should be used, wow brilliant, reminds me of my 127 film camera days many years back, love it. I now use the OVF almost all the time.
So the other night I was playing with some settings and taking shots of my poor obliging wife who is so used to it that she just carried on watching the Olympics - lol. I decided to have a play with the flash again, loaded it up, pointed the flash down towards wife with diffuser attached, took aim and BAM OMG! someone just fired a super nova into my eye! Ahhh I had a massive white blotch image in my retina for ages! and finished watching the olympics squinting with one eye like a pirate! Haha couldn't stop laughing, big lesson learned, dont use the flash with the OVF!!
 

[Aswald]

Hahaha....thanks for sharing. I shall remember that.

 

It's funny but thinking back, I don't think I've used flash while on the ovf.

[Therapeuo63]

Good to know..thanks I don't think I've fired flash with OVF either but will be mindful of the blast.