Pro Slave Flash
Pro Slave Flash
How good are Optical Slave Flashes?
I intend to buy an optical slave flash (the one that detects a light pulse from built in flash in camera and triggers the flash) for my Nikon D5000.
I do not have a master flash hence looking for this inexpensive alternative.
Can anyone using such flash guide me about its Pros and Cons? Also, about the brands available in the market and the best among them?
Looking forward to your suggestions...
KEVIN K is WRONG!! Although the SB600 can be used as a remote using the Nikon CLS system your D5000 does not have the this system and canNOT therefore fire the SB600 from the commander flash on board you camera! The SB600 does not have a dumb optical slave mode, so it will only work on your camera's hotshoe!! Cameras that have the CLS ability are the D70, D80 D90, D200, D300 & D700.
A great little flash will full manual control is the Yongnuo 460-II - fully manually adjustable in power output, and has two optical slave modes (one of which ignores TTL pre-flashes & one which doesn't). It only costs around £40 on eBay. I have one which I fire wirelessly off camera using the Yongnuo RF-602 triggers - these are cheap (£27) and reliable (two things that rarely go together these days!) again available on eBay. The advantages of using radio triggers over optical is that they have greater range (the RF-602's have been tested at over 150m!!), they don't need line of sight (can fire them through walls!) and are less troublesome in bright light (outdoors).
The Yongnuo stuff is pretty good & very popular in the Strobist community. If you want more info on Off Camera Flash, suggest you check out David Hobby's Strobist blog;
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html
Other popular Strobist flashes are the Vivitar 285HV's (have to watch the trigger voltage, some can be too high), Lumipro L160, SunPak (more models than you can shake a stick at) and older Nikon speedlights like the SB26 & SB28.
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