Turning the Internal Flash On and Off (M-REC Mode Only)

When you are using an external flash and do not want the internal one to fire, you can turn the latter off. Note that turning off the internal flash and folding it down are two different things. Turning off the internal flash means that the internal flash will not fire even though it is raised until it is turned on again. On the other hand, folding down the internal flash only means that we do not want to use it. As long as it is raised, the internal flash is ready to use.

Turning the Internal Flash On or Off

To turn the internal flash on or off, follow the procedure below:

• Turn the Mode Dial to M-REC.
• Press the MENU button once to enter the first Shooting menu as shown in the left image below. Then, press the left arrow of the multi-selector to access the first tab (i.e., tab 1) as shown in the right image below. Now, the first tab is highlighted.

• Press the down arrow of the multi-selector to access the S tab as shown in the left image below. Then, press the right arrow of the multi-selector to select this SET-UP 1 menu as shown in the right image below.

• Press the down arrow of the multi-selector until the LCD monitor shows the SET-UP 2 menu (the left image below). The first menu item, Speedlight Opt., is what we want. Therefore, press the right arrow of the multi-selector to select this item. Then, the SPEEDLIGHT OPT. menu appears (the right image below).

• The Speedlight Opt. menu has three items, the second one, Int Flash Off, is what we want. Thus, press the down arrow of the multi-selector to highlight this item:
  

  Then, press the right arrow of the multi-selector to select it.

• There are two options to choose: On and Off.

  For some unknown reason, Nikon decided to do the following strange and very confusing thing:

  To turn on the internal flash, select the Off option. To turn off the internal flash, select the On option.

  The selection is exactly the opposite of what you want: select Off if you want the internal flash to fire, and select On if you do not want the internal flash to fire!

  Make your decision, use the up or down arrow of the multi-selector to highlight the option, and use the right arrow to make a selection.

• Once the above steps complete, press the MENU to return to the M-REC shooting mode.

  Note that once this option is chosen, it will stay even after the camera is turned off. Therefore, you need to go through the above procedure again to reverse the setting..