topic Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

immaculens — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:05:34 GMT

Hello folks.

My Flash EC seems to have always been a little wonky both with the pop-up and my Speedlight.

I had firmware 1.11 and just realized a week ago that v 1.13 had been out since Nov. 2019, so I installed it.

Now Flash EC does not work at all. I have reset the camera about 4 times, tried various different settings but no lucky.

For pop-up flash, typical settings would be:

Manual Mode, RAW, ISO Auto (400) and have tried also 100 and 200, f/2.8., One Shot AF.

I sit on my couch and aim at the wall clock with pop-up FEC at -3 and take a shot, and another shot with FEC at +3 and both images are the exact same exposure. Since firmware 1.13 I have not been able to acheive any different exposures using FEC either for pop-up or my 320EX Speedlight.

I wanted to try again before posting. No change using ETTL pop-up flash with -3 and +3. However using the Speedlight ETTL with -3 and +3 - I noticed a very slight output difference, perhaps a 1/3rd of a stop.

Numerous google searches using different wording have been fruitless as I have not encountered anyone with this issue.

Ideas please? Might I have a setting interfering with Flash Exposure Compensation?

Much thanks for considering this. FEC is quite a convenience and I have a three Autumn shoots in a few weeks. Would be nice tohave FEC handy.

Cheers,

Will

Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

Ray-uk — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:16:25 GMT

It isn't the software version, I am using V1.13 and it works perfectly, note this info from page 257 of the full user manual:

Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

immaculens — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 21:41:54 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I noted Auto Lighting Optimizer earlier as well and made sure it was disabled and it was.

Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

cicopo — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:27:50 GMT

Try turning AUTO ISO off. Set an ISO and see if that fixes it.

Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

immaculens — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:20:07 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I have used iso 100 and 200 with same effect. No exposure change between -3 and +3 fec.

Re: 7DmkII - Flash Exposure Compensation No Worky

cicopo — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:08:32 GMT

OK. Sounds like there's an actual issue going on then.