Gordox MF-R76 - Part 2 - A sales mistake.

 

Snake fly - Raphidoptera - photographed at Winifield, BC.

I should have known.  Something was wrong, but what?  I spent all of yesterday trying to problem-solve issues with the Godox ring flash to no avail.  I consider myself handy at using photographic equipment and, even though I spent many hours adjusting camera and flash settings, I could not make the thing work properly.  My exposures were still coming out very dark.  Thankfully the raw files I shot them in allowed me to resurrect some of the images.

I am camping right now and I have limited access to my stuff at home, including the box and sales receipt my flash came in.  I had no instruction manual and went online to obtain one.  You would think it would be an easy process, but suffice it to say that I had no such luck.  The closest I came to one was a Japanese manuscript that had all the right pictures but did not improve my understanding.  To say that I was frustrated was an understatement - by several orders of magnitude.

I discovered something interesting in my research.  My flash had a menu choice of ETTL but the information found said that Nikon was iTTL and Canon was ETTL.  I then looked at the label on my Godox flash and it had a © symbol on it.  Not copyright - Canon.  It all made sense.  The reason nothing was working properly was because they sold me the wrong flash.

When I ordered the unit, I made sure it was for Nikon.  After receiving it, I noticed that the settings were very odd and so I reset the flash to its factory settings.  I think that the flash must be a return and someone put it in the wrong box.  Anyway, without knowing all this, I played with it a little more and then put it away; I wouldn't be using it for several months.  I brought it out again last week as we were off camping and I was excited to put my new equipment to the test.

So, now I know what the problem is.  I have to send it back (sigh), get the right one which will take time (sigh again), and hope it didn't fry the electronics in my Zfc body (biggest sigh yet).  I may not get to use the flash at all for the rest of the summer.  Hopefully, I can get a return even though it has been several months.

Thanks for reading.

Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com

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