Here’s a quick reference, for anybody who has the Sony HVL-F56AM\/Minolta 5600 HS(D) and Sony HVL-F58AM flash.<\/p>\n
To enter the Custom Function menu on the HVL-F56AM:<\/b><\/p>\n
– hold down the Select button for 3 seconds
\n– press Select to cycle through the Custom Functions
\n– press – or + to change the options of each Custom Function<\/p>\n
The Custom Functions are:<\/b>
\n1) Wireless channel WL CH-1<\/b>\/CH-2\/CH-3\/CH-4
\n2) Flash range units m<\/b>\/ft
\n3) Time to auto power off 4 minutes<\/b>\/15 minutes\/60 minutes\/– (none)
\n4) Time to auto power off when using wireless flash 60 minutes<\/b>\/– (none)
\n5) Recording modes in which manual flash and multiple flash may be set M\/PASM<\/b><\/p>\n
Those in bold are my recommendations.<\/p>\n
To enter the Custom Function menu on the HVL-F58AM:<\/b><\/p>\n
– hold down the Fn button for 3 seconds
\n– press left or right to cycle through the Custom Functions
\n– press up or down to change the options of each Custom Function<\/p>\n
The Custom Functions are:<\/b>
\nC01 – HSS on<\/b> or off
\nC02 – Channel 1<\/b> or 2 or 3 or 4
\nC03 – CTRL1<\/b> (CTRL+ to trigger F42\/F58 on A700\/A850\/A900) or CTRL2 (CTRL to trigger F36\/F56\/F42\/F58 but only on A850\/A900)
\nC04 – PASM<\/b> or M (means you can use Manual Power flash even if your camera body is not on Manual Exposure mode)
\nC05 – TestM<\/b> (strobe for 4 seconds when you press Test) or Test3 (3 strobes) or Test1 (one strobe)
\nC06 – Power Saving 30 minutes, 3 minutes<\/b>, 0.5 minutes or off
\nC07 – Power Saving when in Wireless 60 minutes<\/b> or off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a quick reference, for anybody who has the Sony HVL-F56AM\/Minolta 5600 HS(D) and Sony HVL-F58AM flash. To enter the Custom Function menu on the HVL-F56AM: – hold down the Select button for 3 seconds – press Select to cycle through the Custom Functions – press – or + to change the options of each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}