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Using an SB24 Flash with Nikon D50
Hi... I am looking at a new Nikon D50 or D70s and I am curious: what
will happen if I try to use an older SB24 Flash with the camera? Will it work at all, or is it a must to upgrade that to a new flash like the SB600 or 800? Thanks for your help, John. |
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John Miller wrote: Hi... I am looking at a new Nikon D50 or D70s and I am curious: what will happen if I try to use an older SB24 Flash with the camera? Will it work at all, or is it a must to upgrade that to a new flash like the SB600 or 800? You already got a couple of answers to the identical copy of this you posted on the 30th of July. You *won't* get e-mail answers -- you need to read the newsgroup. My apologies if your news server isn't carrying the newsgroup, so you aren't seeing *any* of the answers, or if your news server has such a short expire time that the answers have allready been expired before you get back to the newsgroup. The basic answer is that it will work in manual or "auto" mode, but not with the fancy ttl metering where the camera tells the flash everything that it needs to use. I presume that it would work on older film cameras, like the Nikon N90s, but because the sensor's reflectance is *very* different from that of film, the technique in the N90s (metering light bounced off the film during exposure) won't work, so the SB-600 and SB-800 flashes do a pre-exposure "metering" flash, and determine how much light reaches the camera from the flash (in different zones of the image), and adjusts the flash output accordingly. So -- if you're willing to take test shots in a carefully set up shot, the S-24 will do for you. If you want to take candid shots (and are willing to live with the flash betraying that you're shooting), you will probably want the SB-600 or SB-800. Enjoy, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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