Re: TTL flash with remote flash for Nikon

When I bought the F5 and the SB28, I was sure that it would be able to
handle multiple flashes and control the amount of light. However,
here is a huge disadvantage of film. If you want to increase or
decrease the light coming from the remotes, you can't know what it
will look like until the printws come back. With digital you can
continuously change.

My son got married a few months ago and the pictures from the two
D200s that the photographers had took just incredible pictures. The
lead photographer who took the arranged wedding party pictures before
the wedding used a Mamiya or a Bronica, I'm not sure. The day was
perfect, not a bright sun and the bridesmaid's dresses were purple
which showed up so well among all the green fro the trees and grass.

As far as the D40x, the SB800 has to be ontop of the camera or can it
be connected to a super bracket, or whatever that thing was called and
the bracket had a piece that went into the camera's hot shoe?

Wait till I tell my friend she has to pay $300 plus for a flash.
Actually, I think the SB28 cost me $350 9 years ago. I am really
surprised that the F5 cannot control more than one flash.


Alan


Oct 2007 02:08:14 -0400, ASAAR <caught@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:03:39 -0400, Alan Calan wrote:

I finally bought the Nikon d40x for my friend's daughter and got a
great price of $660 with a 2 GB SD card and no shipping. Now I am
waiting for the D200s to come down for me.

However, I was reading the Strobist blog and learned some interesting
things but I don't understand what it takes to have two remote flashes
with full control going through the camera. I have an F5 with the
SB28 flash but will soon have a D200.

On the Strobist they talk about cheap remote receivers and "senders"
but they say you have to use manual mode. Who wants manual mode? I'd
rather it be fully automtic with an option to override.

What does is take for the F5 or the D200 to have 2 remote strobes set
off by radio signal and then still getting TTL decision making?

Nikon doesn't use radio signals to communicate with their
speedlights. For fully automatic operation (Nikon's CLS), your
D200' flash can control multiple SB-600 and SB-800 speedlights using
Nikon's i-TTL mode. When used with the F5, you lose i-TTL mode.
See the SB-600 and SB-800 manuals to see which of the other TTL
modes are compatible with the F5. Links to these manuals can be
found at :


http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_req_pass=1&p_sid=STEWULui&p_sid=STEWULui&p_lva=undefined&p_li=undefined&p_faqid=13948&p_created=1143233777&p_sp=undefined

Note: Although you didn't mention it, if your friend's daughter ever
wants to use the D40x to control remote speedlights, she'd need to
get multiple speedlights, at least one being an SB-800, which can be
used as either a master flash or a remote flash. The SB-600 can
only be used as a remote flash, not a master. Unlike the D200, the
D40x's flash can't control remote speedlights. For that
functionality you'd need to mount an SB-800 in its flash hotshoe,
and that flash could then control remote SB-800s and SB-600s. The
smaller SB-400 can also be used as a remote, but it's much more
limited and has a manual that leaves a lot unsaid.
.

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