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Flash pops up on pressing flash button. Flash icon in viewfinder LCD blinks continually.

With flash popped up, pressing flash button [to adjust flash sync or flash-exposure compensation] causes continual clicking sound. Clicking is because camera is attempting to release/unlock pop-up flash, which is already popped-up!

Pop-up flash does not fire. External flash in hotshoe [SB-800] works perfectly.

Ideas on how to fix this. please?

Thanks in advance!

Shubroto

What's the state of your battery?

What camera settings are in play?

Battery is perfect. All settings usable. Flash indicator blinks.

Camera+lens fell front-first onto a carpeted floor, Greg! Seems to have suffered some internal damage.

Waiting and wailing

Shubroto Bhattacharjee wrote:Camera+lens fell front-first onto a carpeted floor, Greg! Seems to have suffered some internal damage.

That would certainly be a possible cause of your problems.

It's as if whatever operates the internal release-latch has come adrift, so that the machine continues to believe that it is in phase-one of its operations: release the pop-up flash. Only in phase-two does the button assume the functions of flash-mode selection [redeye-reduction, first/second-curtain sync, normal/slow sync] and flash exposure compensation, in combination with the thumbwheel and fingerwheel.

I guess there's no option now, Gary, but to take her to the doc [Maxwell Service].

Woe is me; thanks for listening! [And sory to have addressed you as Greg earlier:-)]

Cheers!

Shubroto