Hi there. I'm hoping someone can give me some insight on what might be happening here...

On saturday's wedding reception, out of the corner of my eye I "thought" I saw my flash glow! I blew it off cause thats just odd. By the end of the night it had happened like four times. I did notice that sometimes when it was firing, I felt like it was "popping".

Has this happened to anyone? Do you think its going out??

I haven't noticed mine glowing, but the batteries sure do get extremely when I'm shooting at a reception. I have the old 580 too, it does the same thing. I just figured that was typical... not sure about the glowing though.

Not sure. Unless you confidentiality presses the ev lock (star) button. If the flash is active that will fire a burst.

Gav

you are pressing your depth of field preview button. Its located under the lens release button in a spot where most people put their hands normally. I press mine occassionally by accident and often on purpose to get ppls attention.

Yup, that was it! Thank goodness!!