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MoreCowbell

MoreCowbell

Member Since 07 Nov 2019
Offline Last Active Nov 09 2019 02:29 PM
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D3400: wish to disable the flash for any mode

07 November 2019 - 12:36 PM

With my Nikon D3400, I’d like to disable the flash while choosing any of the modes on the Mode dial.  The only things I have discovered that are possible are:

 

  1. On the Mode dial, the flash can be permanently disabled by selecting the Flash Mode.  But this is only for this mode – it doesn’t apply to any others on the dial.
  2. If I select (for example) Portrait mode, I can press the ‘i’ button and within that menu turn off the flash.  But this setting only holds for that photograph at that time.  If I then turn off the camera and then turn it back on, the setting is lost (i.e., the flash mode reverts to Auto).

 

Ugggh !!  I guess I’m, asking for too much.  I’m frankly surprised that this camera apparently has no capability to, at the operator’s discretion, disable the flash for any mode.  And unfortunately, I have seen nothing in the User’s Manual (136pp) that addresses this, and have found nothing online.