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  • The YN460's slave that can ignore the preflash might make this much more useful to me; usable in manual,RF and CLS.

    Manual Flashes: Two Debuts and an Adoption 2009

  • Camera makers had tried various fixes, such as a preflash to contract pupils before the actual picture is taken, or separating the flash from the camera lens -- complicated solutions that drain batteries.

    A Firm Makes Its Mark 2008

  • They also blink when the preflash light comes on on the camera.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • "A woman would have to be -- to be a good deal of a woman, not any less one, to put such a thing across, Jane," I said, with a preflash of some of the things that might happen in such a cruel crusade of reformation and deprivation of rights.

    The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • Can someone please tell me how to get the preflash turned off on my sb-900?

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • The guide number control and the four-segment preflash metering work together to virtually eliminate the influence of background or subject reflectance in your photographs.

    videosaver.net videosaver 2010

  • I like it for commander mode too, takes care of blinks from the preflash.

    Strobist 2010

  • Subject how to turn off monitor preflash d300-sb900

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2010

  • Enabling the flash increases lag to 0.92 second (you can credit the preflash exposure check for that).

    Imaging Resource News Page 2009

  • With this feature turned on, a preflash fires, then after a delay, the real flash fires and the photo is taken.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

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