Re: TTL flash with remote flash for Nikon

Bos, how do you know what settings? and...what do you do if you have
an F5 with no digital preview window?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:59:37 -0500, "Boskey" <whoknows@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:




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?

Alan

The D200 works nicely in i_TTL with the camera in Commander mode and the
on-camera flash firing remote SB600 or 800's. However, if you are like me,
you probably have some other flash units in your collection and would like
to utilize them. You may want to do some checking, but I have read the SB28
does not work in TTL on digital cameras, but will work in A-mode (Nikon
created the SB28DX for this reason). The cheap wireless receivers and
triggers you have read about are probably the Cactus V2s model found here:
http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/home.php This business also sells via Ebay.

I have just ordered the trigger, which comes with one receiver, and an extra
receiver for a 285HV now sitting on my shelf. Hopefully, I can give you
some feedback on this wireless setup in the next week or two. If time is
short, do a Google search to check out responses ( I found some reads on
DPReview and I believe on the Nikonian site.

.

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