Slow Sync Flash. Planet neil. History & Technology. Nikon SB-700 Speedlight: Build and Design. BUILD AND DESIGN As flashes go, the SB700 doesn't break any new ground in overall build or design.
The rectangular body of the unit carries a tilt-and-swivel flash head, with controls and an LCD panel located at the rear of the body and various sensors at the front. In general appearance it mimics the Vivitar 283 flash I used back in the mid 1970s, albeit a bit more compact. Materials are similar as well, with plastic or composites making up the bulk of construction material in both eras, and while the 283 head doesn't swivel the general layout is pretty much unchanged in units produced over 35 years apart. The general similarities between the old and new flashes part ways when we look more closely at the controls, however. The old 283 is simplicity itself, with the back of the unit consisting of an on-off switch and a couple of status lights.
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© 2006 KenRockwell.com Lens Test Glossary About these reviews I got mine here or get it here Wireless control means you can put the flash anyplace and it just works. Your camera triggers and controls the other flashes by magic. The camera figures out all the exposures, too. This feature is completely free with an SB-600 or SB-800 and a D70/s or D200. You have to pop up the camera's built-in flash. I'll explain the step by step details after the next section. Lighting it the most important technical aspect of any image. It's very helpful to jam a flash anyplace I want, and I do for still life and landscape work. This is a window in an abandoned train car: (click here to see them larger) With no flash (not shown) the window was solid black. It looked OK with on-camera flash fill. A rare stroke of genius hit, and I made the settings below to use my SB-600 flash off-camera.
Photographer education. A lot of news photographers don't think that they are allowed enough time to light pictures, so they rely on their hot shoe mounted flash or on moving their subject into the daylight. If your kit is lightweight and well planned, if it's reliable and quick to assemble then you can light as much of your work as you want to. I tend to specialize in editorial portraiture, so that is the area of work that I'm going to talk about. When I was writing these pages my basic kit was one Lumedyne 200 joule pack, one Signature head, two regular batteries, one stand, an umbrella, a Chimera softbox and a Pocket Wizard kit - all in one sling bag. Since May 2009 that all changed and the Lumedyne kit was replaced by an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra system. I still like the Lumedynes but the Elinchrom is a few percentage points better!