Flash wont pop up - Canon PowerShot SX130 IS Digital Camera

It won't pop out in certain exposure modes, like manual. Try it on auto. If not, GENTLY try to pry it up - sometimes they get stuck from dirt of being hit.

If you are shooting in any other mode that full auto (the green symbol on the wheel) your flash probably wont pop up on it's own? If your in manual mode you need to push the little flash button yourself to pop it up. And one mode on the dial is no flash mode where the flash won't pop up at all.

Try adding water absorb ant fluidd, ie heat. To fuel. May have condensed water in tank. Popped a fuse or breaker

Spring assembly malfunction inside camera that applies the pressure to pop open the flash.

Sometimes the pop-up flash on the EOS range of cameras can get stuck. The EOS family have a very tiny micro switch under one blade of the flash hot-shoe.

Get a toothpick and manually pop the switch. It should clear your error, too.

Good Luck.

It can be that the line to the flash unit is broken or damaged. Since the flash pops up the trigger from the processor is correct and the possibility that the connection has snapped is high .
If not the flash unit - inverter side or the flash tube or the capacitor is faulty.

Sounds like the spring is broken and needs to be replaced.

Hello. In automode, the flash will only pop up when the light conditions require it to pop up. Joe

did it pop up automatically or did you pop it manually? if it popped up by itself then the flash unfortunately is probably dead, since on automatic, it won't pop unless it's going to fire. If you popped it manually then - the camera doesn't think that the flash is necessary for the conditions that you're shooting in.

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