Can you have for flash stay continuously on, on Canon t4i?

Question

I have a Neewer TT560 Speedlite and a Canon T4i (US) or Canon 650D (Europe). I have Soft box on my flash and was wanting to know if I was able to have it continuously on so I don't have to buy an umbrella for a film I am producing and I am in a limited budget.

Answer 1

Do you even know what the word "flash" means.



A light that is on continuously is by definition not a flash. You need to buy some sort of continuous lighting, not a flash.

Answer 2

Above answers are correct, but I want to reiterate. No, you cannot have a flash stay on continuously. Flash actually uses up a lot of power and is a lot of energy. A capacitor is what holds/charges power for the flash and it has to be "recharged" in order to flash again.



If you modified your camera flash to flash continuously (with the built in one), it would likely overheat or melt itself or something like that.

Answer 3

NO, a flash uses a capacitor that charges up to fire ONE intensely powerful FLASH of light. It then has to have a few seconds to recharge before it can again output the flash of light. It is in no way, shape, or form designed to be a light source on all the time. If you somehow forced it to do such a thing, it would quickly fry itself. Even just firing a flash too many times in quick succession can damage it.



steve