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Been on here for a while, mainly just reading and picking up tips

Currenty take a few night club snaps in my spare time using my D80 and a sb80-dx flash

Been taking some good pics, and clubs have been happy with my work, however, I borrowed a TTL compatable flash for 10 mins from a fellow snapper working for a website, and the ease of snapping and quality of the pics was great

Am wanting to upgrade my flash to a sb600 or sb800 (swaying towards the latter) and was wondering if I could get some advice

Mainly shoot off camera, and use the on board flash to fire the gun as slave, but could also use a TTL lead if people recommend that

Thanks

Ollie
 
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Am also using a tonkina 12-24 if that makes a difference
 
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Mean I use the flash on my body to fire my gun as slave

Does that make sense??

Ollie
 
I have both the sb600 and sb800, either of these will work off camera with your D80, personally I always go for the sb800 as it has more output power and only use the sb600 as a second flash.
 
I also have a D80 and when looking for a flash the recommendation was to get the SB800.

I therefore picked up a used SB800 from LCE for 187 delivered.

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Ah

So looks like the sb800 is the way to go then, thanks for the help.
So in terms of use will I still get TTL working off camera, if it isn't connected to the hotshoe??

Ollie
 
You will get TTL with the SB800 if you are using your pop up as a commander, or another one in the hot shoe as a commander, or one of the new pocket wizard radio triggers that are TTL compatible. I would always go for the best flash you can afford, I love the SB900 and would go for that if your budget will stretch that far, otherwise the 800 is a good choice.
 
Well just bought myself one on ebay, so hopefully it will be everything I hope it will :)

Just need to flog my sb80-dx now, have the classifieds gone now??

Any pointers of use of the TTL on and off camera??

Ollie
 
How do you find the auto focus light in red on the flash.
The one on my SB80-dx does not work in conjunction with my body, but was hoping this one will, so that I can use my lens hood on my tonkina 12-24

Will need a TTL cable if I am to use this off camera??

Ollie
 
Unless you need the cash, you might want to consider keeping the SB80, in case you need a second flash for creative OCF.
 
The SC-29 cable (genuine Nikon, not a 3rd-party compatible) has an autofocus aid; or, you could check with a DOF calculator and the distance markings on your lenses and use pre-set manual focus e.g. lens focused at 1m, set to ƒ/4 at 12mm focal length would give you acceptable sharpness from 0.65 to 2.22m.
 
Try the commander mode first - you don't need the ttl lead for this

This mode works by using your on board flash to fire a mini flash which tells the sb800 when and how powerful a flash is required - damn clever !
 
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Might well go off camera for the moment then

As for keeping the other flash, not sure I can really afford it, and the shooting i've been doing at the moment only really needs one flash

Guess the 80dx won't be worth a lot now anyway, so depending on what they go for I might just end up keeping it for a spare

Ollie
 
Olliel said:
Might well go off camera for the moment then

As for keeping the other flash, not sure I can really afford it, and the shooting i've been doing at the moment only really needs one flash

Guess the 80dx won't be worth a lot now anyway, so depending on what they go for I might just end up keeping it for a spare

Ollie
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You'd probably be surprised at what the SB-80DX is still worth on Ebay - anywhere between £80-£120 depending on condition
 
Oh rite, mine is near mint, was sat unused for years until I got my hands on it, just need to find the box and instructions, as I've moved house since then

Ollie
 
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