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06/26/2007 07:25:57 PM · #1 |
I am placing an order for my Alien Bees in the next day. I have a Nikon D200. I was wondering if there is anyway to use my 2 SB-600s with the Alien Bee configuration. I would like to attempt to use the SB-600s to light up the background (I have about 200 colored gels).
If I can't I will order 1 extra Alien Bee B400 but man, I could use that money elsewhere. Since, I would then have to get gels for them too.
I guess, if they had a slave mode or something, it might work.
Did anyone ever try anything like that? I don't care too much about the difference in Temperature since I would only be using them for lighting a background.
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06/26/2007 07:34:37 PM · #2 |
If you can use the Camera's commander mode (the D200 has this right?) to trigger the SB600's, the Alien Bee's can be triggered off the flash of the SB600's.
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06/26/2007 08:15:06 PM · #3 |
you can get optical slave units to hook up to your SB600's pretty cheaply.
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06/26/2007 08:35:02 PM · #4 |
I tried to use my SB-600 off camera with my strobes in commander mode. For what ever reason the camera would only fire the 600 and not the strobes. What I ended up doing is getting an SB-800 using it in SU4 mode off camera, then with the SB-600 on camera (All in manual) triggered all the lights with the 600.
That's just what I did. Leroy's suggestion will work just as good. |
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06/26/2007 11:29:17 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
I tried to use my SB-600 off camera with my strobes in commander mode. For what ever reason the camera would only fire the 600 and not the strobes. What I ended up doing is getting an SB-800 using it in SU4 mode off camera, then with the SB-600 on camera (All in manual) triggered all the lights with the 600.
That's just what I did. Leroy's suggestion will work just as good. |
I think that's because of the way the camera communicates with the flash. Doesn't it send out a series of flashes to signal the unit with the proper exposure or something? If so, I would bet the strobes were seeing this signal and firing off of that and not on the actual flash. My Sigma 500 does this exact same thing when I try to trigger it with my onboard. It'll fire off the ETTL preflash, but not on the real flash. The work around I found for this is to press the FEL button (the * for all you Canon users). This causes the flash to fire the ETTL preflash and not the regular flash in order to obtain and lock the flash exposure. Then when I hit the shutter release, it fires only the real flash and nothing else causing the Sigma to fire properly.
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06/26/2007 11:38:54 PM · #6 |
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