Canon SPEEDLITE EL-1 Advanced User's Manual page 221

Normal Shooting
The power does not turn on.
Check whether the battery compartment cover is closed (
Replace the batteries with new ones.
The Speedlite does not fire.
Insert the mounting foot into the camera's hot shoe all the way, slide the lock lever to the
right, and secure the Speedlite to the camera (
If the <
the batteries (
If the electrical contacts of the Speedlite or camera are dirty, wipe the contacts (
a dry cloth, etc.
When you perform continuous firing repeatedly over a short period of time, causing the
temperature of the flash head to rise and flash firing to be restricted, the firing interval
increases ( ).
If the internal temperature of the battery attached to the charger is high, the charger will
not charge the battery for safety reasons. During charging, if the battery's temperature
becomes high for any reason, charging will stop automatically. When the battery
temperature goes down, charging will resume automatically (
The power turns off by itself.
The Speedlite's auto power off has been activated (
or press the test flash button (
Pictures are underexposed or overexposed.
If the main subject looks very dark or very bright, set flash exposure compensation (
If there is a highly reflective object in the picture, use FE lock (
With high-speed sync, the faster the shutter speed, the lower the guide number
becomes. Move closer to the subject (
The bottom of the picture looks dark.
Move at least 0.5 m / 1.6 ft. away from the subject.
When shooting within 1 m / 3.3 ft. of the subject, set the bounce angle down by 7° (
Remove the lens hood if attached.
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