Recent content by leezon

Get a D200, alot of Canon guys and girls have been converted to it after seeing the shots i get from my gear :) and I have to say that the Canon bodies in the same price range feel very cheap and tacky compared to my D200. Thats what made me go Nikon in the first place

I have tried most, as I have been a web developer for the past 7 years.

FlashFXP is the best by far

I have a D200 and SB-800, and use them in manual mode on all my shoots. I find using auto settings and TTL is a pain and you dont get nice dramatic shots, instead you just get plain boring lighting. I use Cactus triggers and i love them, i found CLS was pretty useless on outside location shoots

I dont know why lots post saying they get poor battery life on the D200. One battery would easily last me two, five hour shoots shooting in raw

get some cactus triggers from gadgetinfinity. Lots of us 'strobists' have them and they are much better than most 'ebay' triggers and only £15 :)

Rookies, where did you get them from? I've been looking to get hold of some :)

I have just bought myself a top spec Dell Studio 17 and its amazing. Also its a 17 inch screen laptop and has a 512mb gfx card 4gb ram and the best Intel CPU on the market. Its great for Lightroom crunching :)

set the onboard flash to '--' in the commander mode. that way it will only emit the pre flash info for the cls and not affect your shot.

You can use your camera to trigger any type of remote flash gun, however you wont be able to use the CLS meaning you wont be able to control the power of the flash from your camera. So the short answer is no, you wont be able to use CLS with other flashes remotely

I love my 70-300mm APO. Its as sharp as hell too One of my shots with it:

I upgraded my firmware the other night. it took about 2mins and works a treat :)

David, I bought a remote shutter release for my D200 off of Ebay which plugs in and has all the controls of a normal shutter with hold etc. Works a treat and I think i paid about £6 for it

I get really good battery life without a grip with my D200, 1 battery would easily last a 5 hour shoot.. Maybe your battery has had it fracster.

I love my D200 :) Good choice!