Saturday, December 29, 2012

My external flash on my Nikon wont fire?

I am using a Nikon D5000, and i just purchased a Zeikos SB-700 external flash. I read the manual and the only instructions it gave me were "when the Ready Light lights up, the flash is ready to fire. Pressing the Test Button will test fire the unit. 1) there is no test button. 2) why aren't there instructions on how to make the flash fire when shooting.
so anyway, how do I make the flash work, I feel really dumb, but I can not for the life of me make the flash work, is there a setting on my camera i need to adjust, is the flash broken, like a shorted wire or something that won't let it work??? please help me!!!
>>> My external flash on my Nikon wont fire?