DSLRUsers.com

After using my flash (SB600) in remote mode, I layed it in my lap without turning it off.

Took a shot, and WHAM! My jeans began to SMOKE!

The flash burnt my jeans and now theres a very faint blue mark on the flash diffuser thing..

The flash and jeans both still work. Do you think I may have shortened the life of the flash?

jimsy wrote:After using my flash (SB600) in remote mode, I layed it in my lap without turning it off.

Took a shot, and WHAM! My jeans began to SMOKE!

The flash burnt my jeans and now theres a very faint blue mark on the flash diffuser thing..

The flash and jeans both still work. Do you think I may have shortened the life of the flash?

How can it happened?

I had the flash on the camera in commander mode from the previous shots, and didn't close the flash on the d70. Leaving the sb-600 ON, it flashed when I took another shot.

Sorry, the topic title should be more like, "Flash, I stupidly fired it accidentally againt my pants". My mistake. But I'm really interested to know if I've just shortened the life of the sb-600?

jimsy wrote:I had the flash on the camera in commander mode from the previous shots, and didn't close the flash on the d70. Leaving the sb-600 ON, it flashed when I took another shot.

Sorry, the topic title should be more like, "Flash, I stupidly fired it accidentally againt my pants". My mistake. But I'm really interested to know if I've just shortened the life of the sb-600?

No it won't cos it acts as the normal flash shooting, I've been down that road and now no more worrying later.

jimsy wrote:Sorry, the topic title should be more like, "Flash, I stupidly fired it accidentally againt my pants".

...or maybe "Hot Pants"?

jimsy wrote:After using my flash (SB600) in remote mode, I layed it in my lap without turning it off.

Took a shot, and WHAM! My jeans began to SMOKE!

The flash burnt my jeans and now theres a very faint blue mark on the flash diffuser thing..

The flash and jeans both still work. Do you think I may have shortened the life of the flash?

Are you sure it was only the jeans that were smoking at the time?

Possibly a little steam, but I doubt you've shortened the life of your flash, maybe taken a couple of weeks of the life of the jeans though...

Cheers

And by the sounds of it 5 minutes off your life

Chris

Hope the crown jewels are OK .

Cherio,

Thanks for the reassurance =p It's good to know that a couple hundred bucks hasn't gone down the drain.

And the crown jewels are doing just fine

What really worried me was the smoke.. I knew a flash gun was powerful, but to burn and almost make my jeans catch on fire (ok, maybe I'm exaggerating here). Didn't smell to good either.