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Manage your entire Creative Lighting System of multiple flash through the large and easy to use LCD panel. Removes the need for cables and separate flash meters to enable accurate automatic exposures in any lighting conditions. The SU-800 can control of any number of i-TTL Creative Lighting system Speedlights like the SB-800 or SB-600, or the dedicated SB-R200 Remote Speedlight for Close-up photography, to deliver an entirely new dimension to your photography indoors or in the field.
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Nikon SU-800 Slave Controller
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I have been a long-time advocate of the Nikon CLS flash lighting system, and find its ability to painlessly light a scene using multiple off-camera flashes to be a real help, especially in ad-hoc shooting situations. This is never more so where time is at a premium, and you don't have the ability to wander around endlessly manually updating power levels on individual flashes. Of course, you can stick an SB-800 or SB-900 on top of the camera to act as a master flash (which is really a waste of a flash), or you can use the built-in flash on a supporting camera body. However, I find that the preflash of the flash on camera tends to make a portrait subject blink at just the wrong second before the main exposure is made, giving you squinting subjects as often as not. Not ideal. It is because of this that I finally decided to purchase an SU-800. Not only does it communicate with the remote flashes using an almost invisible infra-red signal, but it also has a built in focus assist lamp, which is much less bright than the white light a camera body emits, again making the subject much less likely to blink at the wrong moment. With the SU-800, you can control the output of up to 3 separate banks of Nikon flashes without moving from the spot, either in CLS or manual modes. This is to me preferable to the alternative of using Pocket Wizards, which require the flashes to be individually adjusted by hand. The only limitation with the SU-800 is that it requires that the remote flashes can 'see' the infra-red signal, which really means shooting indoors in an enclosed environment, or having the remote flashes in a fairly close proximity outdoors. Being radio driven would remove this limitation, but flashes do tend to emit a lot of electronic noise, so introducing radio control as part of a TTL metering based flash system is not a trivial, as Pocket Wizard have recently found to their cost with their new Canon TTL based system. Given the range limitation, the SU-800 is an excellent solution to off camera remote flash with full CLS support. Its only flaw is a relatively limited range, so 4 points. Highly recommended.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Yes, I know I'm going to get slated for this review, but I sent it back because it had a French manual and that is not good enough for me (I am English and purchased this in the UK).
That makes this item (as far as I'm concerned) a foreign import, in other words a Grey Import - which is frowned upon by Nikon who will NOT honour guarantees.
Shame on you Amazon !
That makes this item (as far as I'm concerned) a foreign import, in other words a Grey Import - which is frowned upon by Nikon who will NOT honour guarantees.
Shame on you Amazon !
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
If you want to do off-camera flash photography outdoors then don't buy this - I used it on a fairly important news feature today shot entirely in someone's back garden using one SB-800 on a stand as a fill-in, and I'd say it only fired off about 15 to 20% of the time.
Even when the infra-red 'windows' were facing each other, it made little difference.
The camera and SU-800 was never any further than 4 or 5 metres away from the flash and at one point I was about two foot away (with infra-red windows facing each other) and it failed completely to set the flash off.
The weather was sunny, so i guess that may have contributed to the problem, but this is 2010 and this shouldn't be a problem!
I've used it indoors in a variety of positions and it probably fires off about 80 to 90% of the time.
So if there's plenty to bounce off, then it's a happy little SU-800, but when it's got nothing to bounce off, it's a petulant little barsteward that won't play ball. Not really good enough when you take pictures for a living and you need to be quick.
The time you save amending the flash's output by using the SU-800 is more than made up for by constantly getting up and moving the flash so it's in some kind of range of the SU-800.
I'll probably try and keep using the SU-800 for a little while longer, but to be honest, I'm going to sell it and save up for a Pocket Wizard : D
Even when the infra-red 'windows' were facing each other, it made little difference.
The camera and SU-800 was never any further than 4 or 5 metres away from the flash and at one point I was about two foot away (with infra-red windows facing each other) and it failed completely to set the flash off.
The weather was sunny, so i guess that may have contributed to the problem, but this is 2010 and this shouldn't be a problem!
I've used it indoors in a variety of positions and it probably fires off about 80 to 90% of the time.
So if there's plenty to bounce off, then it's a happy little SU-800, but when it's got nothing to bounce off, it's a petulant little barsteward that won't play ball. Not really good enough when you take pictures for a living and you need to be quick.
The time you save amending the flash's output by using the SU-800 is more than made up for by constantly getting up and moving the flash so it's in some kind of range of the SU-800.
I'll probably try and keep using the SU-800 for a little while longer, but to be honest, I'm going to sell it and save up for a Pocket Wizard : D
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