Bundled with an SB-800 Speedlights is the Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) wherein a flash can be controlled off-camera. This is one of the considerations that I had before buying one, I’ve read a lot of discussion about this & the strobist technique & I was very impressed of it’s capability. After spending a huge amount of money for my upgrade, I want to make sure that this thing is working, I did an experiment on Nikon D80 & SB800 CLS, here are the results.
On these experiments, I held on the SB800 flash, it was set on “Remote” mode, I then placed the camera on a tripod, the built-in flash was set on “Commander” mode. Of course, I need a model & I volunteered since no one is with me during the experiment. The camera was set on self-timer which means I have 10 seconds to position myself & make sure that I will be included in the photo.
What interest me on the subject was (or still is) the fact that I can build an economical, mobile & lightweight studio system. If & when this experiment will succeed, all I need to buy is another flash (probably an SB600) & a bounce umbrella, this can mimic (well almost) the huge studion lighting capabiliy.
The results were not that impressive (I know that for a fact), there are a lot of things that needed to be learned & implemented, but this is my first step in doing it the right way.
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1 eric aka senor enrique // May 29, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I only have the SB600. But can it do the same as with tyhe SB800?
2 Sidney // May 30, 2007 at 7:35 am
Probably you also need a beautiful and sexy girl as model !
You will see that it will improve the quality of your photography !
3 Masterbetong // May 30, 2007 at 10:54 pm
@Eric, yeah you can do that with SB600, Nikon D80 can command both SB600 & SB800.
@Sidney, yeah models provides a different life on the photos, I might try doing it.
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