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05/05/2010 05:34:52 PM · #1 |
Can anyone tell me how to set the SB-600 to work as a flash-triggered slave without the Nikon?
I have a visitor who wants to try it with his Canon...
But I don't have the manual handy.
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05/05/2010 05:41:59 PM · #2 |
I don't think you can match it with a canon unless it has and optical sensor.
I'm guessing you would need a set of triggers. |
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05/05/2010 05:43:04 PM · #3 |
Not sure it works as a flash-triggered slave, especially for a Canon of all things, but here is a link to the manual.
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05/05/2010 05:50:42 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Can anyone tell me how to set the SB-600 to work as a flash-triggered slave without the Nikon? |
Without additional hardware (cable, radiopopper, pocketwizard, cybersync, etc), the SB-600 can only be remote flash in a CLS system (controlled by any Nikon CLS commander). It does not have "dumb" optical trigger / SU-4 mode. SB-800/900 do, SB-600 does not.
Cheapest method might be a hotshoe-mount optical trigger from flashzebra or similar. In any solution, you simply have to have "something" communicate with the SB-600 via hotshoe or PC connection -- the existing/built-in optical receiver only responds to CLS commands.
[ edited for clarity ]
Message edited by author 2010-05-05 17:54:07. |
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05/05/2010 07:40:58 PM · #5 |
Thanks for the replies...yes, we couldn't get it to work. So we used the little $10 slave (vivitar?) that everyone bought when someone mentioned it on DPC.
Not usually a problem for me ... I love the CLS system! Except I don't understand why they don't put the little sensors on BOTH sides of the flash!
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05/05/2010 07:50:39 PM · #6 |
| And on both sides of the d80 too. |
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05/05/2010 07:52:08 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
I love the CLS system! Except I don't understand why they don't put the little sensors on BOTH sides of the flash! |
So you will buy a right handed one and a left handed one! Actually on the SB800 the top part rotates 180 degrees relative to the bottom part, so you can switch "handedness". Is that also the case for the SB600? |
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05/05/2010 08:08:02 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by ErikV:
Actually on the SB800 the top part rotates 180 degrees relative to the bottom part, |
Its still a pia to have to change it
Message edited by author 2010-05-05 20:08:45. |
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05/05/2010 08:08:43 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by David Ey:
And on both sides of the d80 too. |
Doesn't D80 trigger using the built-in flash? Am I missing the sensor trigger!
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05/05/2010 08:49:34 PM · #10 |
I don't know. I have a couple of the 28dx and a sb800. If I use the 800 off cam I think my on cam built in must be able to see the sensor on the front of the 800 and be cable linked to the 28's or have some of those other gadgets. I would really like to know how to hook these to my D80 wirelessly......and I have a wirelesss shutter release but have to be in front of cam to use it. :{
Message edited by author 2010-05-05 20:51:51. |
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05/05/2010 08:52:39 PM · #11 |
On the SB800 it takes less than 1 second to rotate the top relative to the bottom, so its not that big a deal. Regarding the D80 (and several other Nikon DSLRs) the built in flash is indeed the trigger, so there is no left vs right issue there.
ETA But David is correct about the wireless shutter release only operating from the front, which indeed can be a PIA.
Message edited by author 2010-05-05 20:54:52. |
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