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Flash In The Pan said:
I've noticed a lot of people who are using their Nikon camera's onboard flash to trigger off-camera speedlights wondering how to prevent it contributing to the exposure.

We all know you can turn it down, but not off, which is still far from ideal.
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Pop up the on board flash and go to Menu > Custom Setting Menu (Pencil symbol on the left) > e Bracketing/Flash > e3 Built in flash > Commander Mode. Go to the first box right of where it says Built in and scroll down until -- is entered in the box. Once you have done this it will only fire a pre-flash although it might look like it is firing the onboard flash as both go off within a split second of each other.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
That's only the screen part of the SG-3IR, not the whole thing, you would still need to make up something to attach it to the camera with....
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I think you'll find it one of these

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cause i've got one:)
 
Hacker said:
Pop up the on board flash and go to Menu > Custom Setting Menu (Pencil symbol on the left) > e Bracketing/Flash > e3 Built in flash > Commander Mode. Go to the first box right of where it says Built in and scroll down until -- is entered in the box. Once you have done this it will only fire a pre-flash although it might look like it is firing the onboard flash as both go off within a split second of each other.
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I think you're missing the point ;)
 
It must have come down in price as there £7.99 here as it says in the original link sale
 
Hacker is right though? In the main, it doesn't contribute to the exposure, however it will when doing close-up stuff, presumably because the glow from it 'cooling down' is still enough to illuminate something close range. This is backed by the D200 manual at least.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
The point was that quite a few people have posted asking how to get rid of the visible light emitted by the onboard flash when used in command mode and using either the SG3-IR or the Photomart filter is how to do it.

What Hacker suggests doesn't prevent the emission of visible light from the onboard flash, which is what the original post was about.....And I am never wrong!!!
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EFA........:D
 
Flash In The Pan said:
The point was that quite a few people have posted asking how to get rid of the visible light emitted by the onboard flash when used in command mode and using either the SG3-IR or the Photomart filter is how to do it.

What Hacker suggests doesn't prevent the emission of visible light from the onboard flash, which is what the original post was about.....
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Fair enough. Just making sure you understand how it works, 'cos you say onboard flash can be 'turned down', which is not strictly true... There's often confusion about it, but I'm sure you know how it operates :)

fracster said:
EFA........:D
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I've Googled that one, but still I don't know what it means :(
 
Most unlike you to have a sense of humour failure Flashy.........:shrug:

OK, i`m outta this one now.
 
Hacker said:
WTF is that supposed to mean? You asked a question and it got answered! :thinking:



Obviously.
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I didn't ask a question. I posted what I thought was a helpful link to something which I thought would be of use to some members. From your reply it appears you didn't read the post fully, but it was removed becaue Fracster took it upon himself to wade in with insideous little comments designed solely to disrupt the thread.
 
What did I miss?
 
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