Well, bad news.
A week or two ago, I picked up a used SB-24 for $40. Seeing that my camera doesn’t have a port to connect an external flash, I set out to make my own, following some plans I found online. My basic intent was to completely block off the in-camera flash and use an optical slave system to fire the external. Well, the other day I was trying to get it working properly…it kept firing on the first flash from the camera instead of the second (darn preflash).
Was doing some tweaking, and all of a sudden it worked! So I figured I’d try again to make sure. Then when I looked at my camera’s LCD I noticed something strange. The last picture taken was all black, with just a bright green streak on the right side. I flip to recording mode, and all I get is black with a little magenta in there.
Bummer.
No amount of changing settings, removing the batteries, etc. has brought it back to life.
No money for a new camera right now, so I guess I’ll have to live without. Maybe that means I need to go buy some 120 film and bust out the 1950’s Brownie Hawkeye.
Oh well.
