Flash Has Arrived :-)

[Darren Turner]

now what............this SB700 has more complex menu than the camera

read manual.............dont really understand it hahaha i not well up on flash

anyone know of any good easy to follow online tutorials on using this & maybe a way of practicing and using it to try help me get the jist on how to use............... dunno why i even bought it [drool][drool] just looked nice [banghead]

Das

 

[Dave Green]

Some basics that I use...

Indoors - use TTL mode - it works

Outdoors - use TTL-BL mode - it works

In conditions where you want to specify the aperture AND shutter speed (withing the 1/250" sync speed) shoot in manual on the camera and leave TTL mode on the flash to work out the exposure - it works!

If you want to use fill flash in Aperture Priority mode without having the camera's aperture set itself for the flash - switch your camera to rear sync mode (you still have the limitation of sync speed) and use it manually. I often do this and set the flash distance (it'll tell you on the rear display) to about half the subject distance just to give an outdoor shot a bit of pop or give people catchlights.

To use it off camera - set up commander mode on your camera and switch the flash to "remote" - don't forget to turn off the built in pop-up speedlight if you don't want it to contribute. You'll still see if flash but that's just the pre-flash for metering.

Hope some of that makes sense.

 

[Darren Turner]

Some basics that I use...

Indoors - use TTL mode - it works

Outdoors - use TTL-BL mode - it works

In conditions where you want to specify the aperture AND shutter speed (withing the 1/250" sync speed) shoot in manual on the camera and leave TTL mode on the flash to work out the exposure - it works!

If you want to use fill flash in Aperture Priority mode without having the camera's aperture set itself for the flash - switch your camera to rear sync mode (you still have the limitation of sync speed) and use it manually. I often do this and set the flash distance (it'll tell you on the rear display) to about half the subject distance just to give an outdoor shot a bit of pop or give people catchlights.

To use it off camera - set up commander mode on your camera and switch the flash to "remote" - don't forget to turn off the built in pop-up speedlight if you don't want it to contribute. You'll still see if flash but that's just the pre-flash for metering.

Hope some of that makes sense.

Dave,

that is brilliant, so handy and in plain English...........save this text to my phone so i dont forget,

thanks so much

Cheers

Daz

 

[Dave Green]

Just re-read that...

Amend...

If you want to use fill flash in Aperture Priority mode without having the camera's SHUTTER SPEED set itself for the flash