Speed Light for D3100?

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Im new to the world of speed lights. Mainly being using studio lights but Im drawn to the portable use of the speed light.

What would you recommend for portraiture work?
Im happy to go second hand for a better light.
 
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If your used to studio lights and manual settings, I'd go for the Yongnuo YN560 II
Same power output as the Nikon SB910, without the bells and whistles. It's manual only with great build quality.
Usually around £50 from UK suppliers on ebay
 
I've been using one this evening for the first time at a Panto at our local church. It worked really well and did everything I needed it to.

Was trying to get it to work with the Nikon Commander system this morning, but didn't have much luck with it. It would fire from the on-board speedlight, but it was ALWAYS before the shutter went so I ended up with completely under exposed test shots. Not sure what I was doing wrong but when I hooked it up to the RF-602's I've got it performed properly.
 
The 560-II will not participate in the Nikon AWL TTL flash system (the YN565 and YN568 will). You can however get it to fire in slave mode in response to the pop-up light flashing. On the 560, there should be 2 slave modes - one is designed to ignore the iTTL pre-flash which happens just before the picture is taken.

In practice, I've found this doesn't always work with the Yongnuo flashes as the Nikon system outputs many small flashes as part of exposure metering and sending the required flash power to AWL compatible lights.

The other way is put the pop-up into regular flash mode (ie not an AWL commander) and dial it down to the point where it won't show up in the image.

Much much simpler to just use those radio triggers you have though. I put up with the AWL optical triggering to get iTTL and HSS, however there is now at least one reliable radio solution for this now in the shape of the Phottix Odin.
 
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