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hi all, I've been curious that most brands now support wireless flash and Nikon is one of the brands that is even better with the camera's built in flash to be used as the command flash.

Well, i'm just curious how many did really use multiple wireless flash?? I'm asking this as it really seems that most people are using standard studio flashes instead relying on just wireless flashes?

Well, what i'm wondering is how good if i have 2 to 3 nikon flashes and i can make good use of multiple wireless flashes anywhere i go when i need to?
 
AWL is great, but your range is fairly limited.

I use it in a number of situations. I sometimes have to photograph speakers in a dark conference room. I will mount an SB-600 on a table near the speaker and can shoot wirelessly from a distance, effectively increasing my shooting range.

I also use a pair of SB-600's mounted on opposite corners of the mat when shooting wrestling...generally only one flash will be in the line of sight of the controller flash, so I get a nice sidelight effect:



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Get some good rechargeable nimhs, and the portablility is great.

I have two umbrellas, and for quick family or work portraits, product shots, etc, phenomenal.

If you shoot all day everyday, you want powered monolights, but SB800's on a stand w/umbies can be moved around so easily and carried anywhere in a bag or two.

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I use 2 SB-600s and 2 SB-800s with my D-300 using the CLS system and it works great. Most of the time I use one of the SB-800s on a Custom Bracket as the commander and let it control the 2 SB-600s mounted on light stands with diffusers. If needed I will use the remaining SB-800 as a backlight or a hair light. I think the Nikon CLS system is awesome and works great for my needs.

Hope this helps!
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Chuck Steenburgh said:
AWL is great, but your range is fairly limited.

I use it in a number of situations. I sometimes have to photograph
speakers in a dark conference room. I will mount an SB-600 on a
table near the speaker and can shoot wirelessly from a distance,
effectively increasing my shooting range.
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What is the wireless range in that situation. I have thought about trying that in our church the distance is about 60-70ft do you think that would work? The lighting is poor for my 80-400mm lens. I dont want to be right up on them so I can get up close with my zoom......

Thanks
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once you learn that virtually ANY old flash can be triggered just using light itself, at about a tenth of the cost, you'll see why CLS isn't the predominant way of doing flash. Strobist can teach you, my comments are only to save you $$ until you read that site thoroughly;-)
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will allow you about 20 shots..an hour!! Check your Nikon manual under battery usage for the small print, and put it together. If you want anything that approaches "reliable" and you want to use CLS, you need the SU-800 controller on your cam instead of using the on-camera flash for CLS.

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jizzer said:
will allow you about 20 shots..an hour!! Check your Nikon manual
under battery usage for the small print, and put it together. If you
want anything that approaches "reliable" and you want to use CLS, you
need the SU-800 controller on your cam instead of using the on-camera
flash for CLS.
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I can get that many shots in about ten minutes... I will give you that in bright light the trigger is not always reliable and the su-800 would do better, but indoors CLS (with the on cam commander) works like a charm. The only limit I've found is the charge in the batteries.
Cheers, Pete
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I have two SB800s and find them excellent for some situations were the lighting is not good and can use them wirelessly. However in studio proper lighting is still by far the best. I find that in many situations they are very good but I expect that other manufacturers will also make good less expensive flashes but I doubt that they will work as well with Nikon equipment.
Claude
 
I just ordered my first SB-800 the other day and am waiting for it to get here...can't wait!

But, it was my understanding that these flashes needed to be used more or less in line-of-sight. If you are using a SB-800 as a hairlight, and assuming you have the flash somewhere behind the subject then how can the flash fire if it's not in line-of-sight?

Sorry if this is a silly question but I'm just now learning about flash photography and each day I have many more questions then I can seem to find answers for.

Best Regards,
Kerry
 
my number of shots per hour is way off, my apologies. Here is the actual amount...

..page 205 of my D70 manual, under the heading "Battery Life"

The page is concerned with how many shots can be taken with a fully-charged EN-EL3 battery under various conditions. To illustrate the real-world # of shots one could expect, they set up 2 different examples. Example #1 produces 2000 shots, but it's setting use no flash so it does not concern us...

but Example #2 is quite interesting...

400 shots are possible in this scenario:
  • single-frame shooting mode, single-servo AF, image quality at JPG basic, size at L, shutterspeed of 1/250, shutter-release held halfway and focus cycled from inf to minimum range once each shot,
  • built-in Speedlight fired at Full Power every other shot
  • AF assist light when speedlight is used (which is 50% of the time)
  • Camera is turned off for one minute every 10 shots
This means that, assuming the CLS pre-flash is using near full power (and I suspect it's very close), you can only get 5 shots to fire correctly before turning your camera off for 1 minute while your models run away (I keed).:-)

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So for every 10 shots, the internal-cam-flash-battery (NOT the cam battery itself) needs to wait 1 minute to get enough juice back to fire those CLS pre-flashes.

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