Nikon SLR Cameras

Continuous shooting with flash?

Michael
Michael

I have a nikon d3200 and was wondering if its possible to have the flash go off with every picture taken when i do continuous shots?

Added (1). no no not with an aftermarket flash. Just the flash thats built in

qrk
qrk

Up to a point. If you put the flash on minimum power, you will be able to take a series of shots in rapid succession. You'll need to experiment with that. As an experiment, I just shot off 20 shots in continuous mode, about 6 shots per second using a SB600 flash at 1/64 power. All photos were consistently exposed. I could have shot more images.

If your flash power is higher, you won't be able to get many shots in continuous mode. When doing this, give your flash a break so it can cool down.

Using the built-in flash, you may have difficulty doing continuous shooting since the storage capacitor is tiny compared to a speedlight.

Matt
Matt

Continuous shoots are called videos, and no, the flash is not going to do that.

If you wan to shoot a burst of images, typically it is too fast a recycle time for the flash to keep up.

Steve P
Steve P

Let's just keep this simple

Alan
Alan

To make a flash, a hollow tube filled with xenon gas is excited by hitting it with a high voltage charge. Now the battery in your camera is too feeble to fire the flash outright. What happens is, the battery voltage is stepped up via a transformer and this high voltage is sent to a capacitor. The capacitor acts like a fire bucket held under a dripping faucet. The bucket fills slowly drop by drop. When filled, you can pick up the bucket, throw the bucket of water on a fire, and douse it. The in-camera flash works the same way. The battery trickle charges a capacitor and when fully charged (takes time) you press the go button, and the flash fires. To get another flash you must wait till the capacitor is again charged.