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Hi All,

I've been using my D70 for a while now, quite long in the tooth but still enjoying it as a newbie.

Truth be told, I should be using it more and am currently reading Bryan Petersen's "Understanding Exposure"

I want to get a flash for the the D70 but don't really want to pay through the nose for a flash on an old camera.

I only want to play with it for family portraits at this stage to learn more about flash usage.

I've heard of Nissin, Metz Yongnuo and obviously Nikon flashes but not sure what I should go for.

What would you recommend?

Thanks,

WTP
 
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I have a YongNuo YN-467 and for most purposes it's fine. It has on shoe TTL, manual settings, manual and auto zoom and can be set to 2 optical slave modes.

Down sides are it's a touch fragile (broke the wide angle thing) and not the most powerful flash ever. That said it was only about £35-40, paid less than £50 with some RF-602s IIRC.

If you want CLS (which I think the D70 has) then I'd be looking at a used SB=-600 or maybe a Yongnuo YN-565EX. The latter of which looks quite interesting and is about £100.
 
Another alternative is a Metz unit. They support TTL and the Nikon CLS system on your D70

I replaced my Nikon units with Metz a couple of years ago and from a personal perspective I actually prefer the quality of the light I get from them. They were less expensive than the Nikon equivalents too!
 
I'm not sure about getting a SB-600, most people seem to advise against buying a used flash as they could have had a hard life.

Which Metz ones?

I've made some inquiries about the Yongnuo, mainly to find the location of the seller on ebay.

WTP
 
WannaTakePix said:
I'm not sure about getting a SB-600, most people seem to advise against buying a used flash as they could have had a hard life.
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"Most people" being those who sell new flashes, by any chance? ;)

The SB600 isn't really a professional flash anyway, so most secondhand examples will have led a fairly sheltered life, but even one that has seen a bit of action will probably still give years and years of sterling service.
 
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