key/fill slaving with nikon SB80 or SB800

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zeitgeist - 20 Feb 2006 03:36 GMT

How does nikon flash wireless syncing work with the SB80?

A friend was saying that his two sb800 sync without need of pocket wizards.

Is it a radio slave? IR or plain 'visual' slave?

Can I use my SB80 and buy another 80 or 800 or do I need two 800's?

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Matt Clara - 20 Feb 2006 14:22 GMT

> How does nikon flash wireless syncing work with the SB80?
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> Can I use my SB80 and buy another 80 or 800 or do I need two 800's?

You need the SB800 or SB600. It's part of Nikon's new creative light, um,
thing.
http://www.olegnovikov.com/technical/nikoncls/cls.shtml

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Matt Clara
www.mattclara.com

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zeitgeist - 21 Feb 2006 08:22 GMT

Informative site, but it seems to suggest that a new camera system is
required to use the CLS

I'm gonna keep my Kodak's for a couple more years, I like the quality of the
images.

> > How does nikon flash wireless syncing work with the SB80?
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> Matt Clara
> www.mattclara.com

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Ronnie Sellar - 21 Feb 2006 08:39 GMT

> How does nikon flash wireless syncing work with the SB80?
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> Can I use my SB80 and buy another 80 or 800 or do I need two 800's?

An SB800 can be used as a slave to an SB80 by putting the SB800 into "SU-4
Remote mode". It then acts as either a manual slave or an automatic slave
which will start and stop with the main flash.

Ronnie

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Father Kodak - 07 Apr 2006 18:01 GMT

>An SB800 can be used as a slave to an SB80 by putting the SB800 into "SU-4
>Remote mode". It then acts as either a manual slave or an automatic slave
>which will start and stop with the main flash.
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>Ronnie

Matt and Ronnie,

I just learned that I could use an SB-800 with a non-CLS body, in that
excellent Oleg Nikov web site:

Quoting: "The new speedlights will also work with older cameras in
the modes that those cameras support."

What isn't clear. If I use an SB-800 on camera with a non-CLS camera,
does the iTTL still function in some limited ways? E.g. control the
settings on slave SB-800s and SB-600s?

Thanks

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Ronnie Sellar - 10 Apr 2006 08:41 GMT

>>An SB800 can be used as a slave to an SB80 by putting the SB800 into "SU-4
>>Remote mode". It then acts as either a manual slave or an automatic slave
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> Thanks

I don't think the SB800 will add CLS functions to a non CLS camera. There
are functions which CLS requires which are part of the camera rather than
the flash. On older bodies the SB800 will just act like the appropriate
dedicated Nikon flash for that body i.e. dTTL or straight "film" TTL.

Ronnie

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