My Nikon d40 build in flash not working after fall

Oct 04, 2007

- Hi, Mykel thanks for the reply. I had just finisned takeing a pic, when it fell. The build in flash was still open when it fell, but did not fall on the flash so itself didn't get damaged it fall more to the bottom of the camrea. So as a result of this the flash will not popup even if you press the side button for it to popup.

When you go to take a pic now, i.e in a dark lite room the flash will not popup. The settings on the camrea seems fine as all the icons are there even when you change flash modes. When you shot a sounds like the it is trying to but cant i.e a clicking sound. I have tryed to restore the settings as in the mannuel, but still notting. The lightmeter works and all icons show up when you change modes.
Hope this is a bit more info, and you can surget an ideas.
Cheers.

Oct 05, 2007

- Hi Mykewl,
I have made the flash popup by using my finger, it goes up ok that fine. The problem is it will not flash fire in low light at all and the pic sometimes comes out blury. Even with all the settings set up right for it to flash in the menus it still will not.

Thank you for your time in trying to help me with this problem, who knows it could be anything, a rang the repair centre and I am sending it in to them to fix the problem, their is a centre not far from me. They said it would take anything up to 2 weeks to fix.

I am just really anyoned with myself for letting this happen, but on the under hand feel that the money I paid for the camera I feel that it should not go pear shaped at the first outing. I know that it fell and should have being more careful with it, but I have other things that have gone through worse things then this, and was fine. Just thought it would be made of harder stuff then to fell on carpet and brake for the price of it.

Anyway Cheers for that.