Sooo...my parents decided to buy a camera that they wont ever learn how to use...Canon EOS Rebel T1i.

My mom was messing with something and changed some setting, and now whenever you take a picture, the built in flash flashes about 5-10 times before it takes the picture. It does this about 90% of the time.

She says she was trying to adjust "the lighting" haha.

Does anyone have any idea what I need to check or change to fix this?

2/12/2010 10:33:52 PM

She turned on the red-eye reduction.

RTFM

2/12/2010 10:54:15 PM

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"the built in flash flashes about 5-10 times before it takes the picture."

sounds like she turned on the timer. You know, so you can press the shutter then jump in the group picture? On my Rebel XT there is one button that turns that on and off and the icon looks like a timer

2/13/2010 6:14:16 AM

nah, it's not the timer for sure. This is like 5-10 flashes in less than a second.

2/13/2010 3:29:24 PM

Quote :

"She turned on the red-eye reduction. RTFM"

2/13/2010 3:40:57 PM

The red-eye was indeed turned on, however even after turning it off, it still does this.

2/13/2010 4:50:54 PM

Either it's not really off, or it's doing it to assist the auto-focus in dim light.

2/13/2010 4:56:21 PM

You may have a point with the low-light thing....

It's definitely off though.

2/13/2010 5:09:12 PM

its the auto focus in low light. Its annoying and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it without taking it out of auto mode.

2/13/2010 9:33:09 PM

Send the camera to me and i'll fix it.

2/14/2010 1:19:08 AM

it's because the low light if it's 5-10 flashes in a second. Take it out of auto or add more light. (or get a lens with low light capability)

2/14/2010 5:46:05 PM