Why won’t my Yongnuo flash fire in Live View on a Canon 60D?
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I’m using a Canon 60D with a Yongnuo YN560-III. The flash works normally, but when I switch the camera to Live View it won’t fire. What setting causes this, and how can I fix it?
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Go into the Live View Settings menu (red tab no.4) and turn Silent Shooting off. Then the flash will fire. For some reason silent shooting is not compatible with 3rd party speedlites.
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On the Canon 60D, this is usually caused by the Live View Silent Shooting setting. With Silent Shooting enabled, some third-party flashes such as the Yongnuo YN560-III may not fire in Live View.
Go to the Live View settings menu and turn Silent Shooting off. After that, the flash should fire normally in Live View.
In short: the issue is not Live View itself, but the Silent Shooting option being incompatible with some non-Canon speedlites.
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