Pooped pop-up flash on D70

[Shubroto Bhattacharjee]

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

[gstark]

What's the state of your battery?

What camera settings are in play?

[Shubroto Bhattacharjee]

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

[gstark]

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.

[Shubroto Bhattacharjee]

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