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A battery warning appears on the display
• When the battery warning appears on the display there is still enough power
left for a few more flashes. See also chapter 3.2 "Replacing batteries". There
are, however, battery batches with which the battery warning appears relati-
vely early, even though there may still be up to 50 % of the flashes still availa-
ble. In wireless remote mode it is not possible to provide a battery warning for
system-related reasons.
A battery symbol appears on the display
• There is a Metz Power Pack P76 connected to the mecablitz and there are
batteries in the battery compartment of the mecablitz. Remove batteries from
the mecablitz.
The AF measuring beam of the flash unit is not activated.
• The flash unit is not ready for firing.
• The camera is not in Single AF mode (S-AF).
• The camera supports only its own internal AF measuring beam.
• Some cameras support the AF measuring beam in the flash unit only with the
camera's central AF sensor. If a peripheral AF sensor is selected, then the AF mea-
suring beam will not be activated in the flash unit. Activate the central AF sensor.
The reflector position is not automatically adjusted to the current zoom posi-
tion of the lens.
• The camera is not transmitting any digital data to the flash unit.
• There is no exchange of data between the flash unit and the camera.
Tap the camera's shutter release.
• The main reflector is swivelled out of its locked normal position.
• The wide-angle diffuser folds out from the main reflector.
• A Mecabounce is mounted in front of the main reflector.
The sign for the zoom position of the reflector blinks in the display
• Warning advice of shading on the edge of the picture: The focus of the lens
(converted to 35 mm - small picture format 24x36) set on the camera is smal-
ler than the zoom position set on the reflector.
The secondary reflector cannot be activated, or no flash is triggered.
• The secondary reflector does not support the stroboscopic and modelling light
(ML) flash modes. In these modes the secondary reflector cannot be activated,
or the secondary reflector does not trigger a flash.
• The main reflector is in its normal position or tilted downwards.
The P-TTL or P-TTL-HSS flash modes cannot be called up and/or set on the
flash unit.
• The camera does not support this flash mode. See camera's operating
instructions.
• No data exchange took place between the flash unit and camera.
Lightly touch the shutter release.
The secondary reflector flashes even though it is switched off.
• The mecablitz operates as a master in the remote system. The secondary
reflector of the master flash unit controls the slave flash units. The light of the
secondary reflector does not contribute to the exposure of the shot in this
case.
The setting for manual TTL/P-TTL flash exposure correction has no effect.
• The camera does not support manual TTL flash exposure correction on the
flash unit.
Flash unit cannot be set for P-TTL wireless remote operation as the master flash
unit.
• There has been no exchange of data between the flash unit and the camera.
Tap the camera's shutter release.
• The camera does not support the P-TTL remote flash mode.
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