Nikon SB-910 Speedlight Unit

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On the other hand, one performance aspect is clearly improved and its a doozey: flash recycling is rated as 50-90% faster than before.

I have an oldish set of Phottix manual triggers that are still super reliable on the Z bodies with the SB-910.Using the SB-910 as a Commander or the in concert with the SU-800 Commander or D-SLR with built-in Commander operating as the Master controller, you can wirelessly manage and fire up to three groups of remotely positioned SB-910, SB-900, SB-700 and SB-R200 Speedlights.

YOU MAY NOT ALTER OR REMOVE ANY COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK OR OTHER PROTECTIVE NOTICES CONTAINED IN THE MANUAL. In my experience the old Auto Aperture mode is more consistent and reliable than i-TTL - direct, bounced, diffused, whatever. Nikon lists figures using 2600mAh batteries, but anything over 2000mAh should give you a good level of performance (150 shots per charge or more). Depending on which camera you're using, these things try to seal the camera's hot shoe from water when using this flash. The SB-910 is an update to the short-lived SB-900, and adds hard plastic color-correction filters to replace the wimpy gels of the SB-900.TTL works adequately enough for paparazzi snappers, which I suspect is the major speedlight market, followed by wedding and event users. The battery compartment door is slightly better than the SB-800's and seems less flimsy, but it will still tend to pop open when the flash is dropped.

Over the years, shooting an average of 100 flash pops a day, plus using them on weddings on the weekends, I wouldn’t be able to count accurately how many flash pops these flashes went through over the years.This means that you'll never have to worry about using the diffuser, even with the 16-35mm zoom on FX. You can't accidentally move the switch to remote or master, you must press an interlock button to do so, a nice touch. This baloney means that you can set an offset in the zoom head so that it tends to focus the light more tightly towards the center, or spread it out more than usual.

seconds was nearly met in my testing, and I was getting almost exactly a 100% speed boost when I moved those batteries from the SB-800 to the SB-900. A thermal cutout feature keeps you from frying your head (and an indicator shows you how close you are to doing that ;~). An audible alert in slave mode tells you when the flash has recharged - an indispensable thing for creative lighting, strobe lovers will understand me.

I simply cannot deal with the inconsistent light output when firing rapidly for portraits, and the inconsistent CLS functionality. I hope someone out there in an Attorney General's office is reading this, and can give Nikon the hard time it deserves: on page B-7 in the large Nikon SB-910 User's Manual, you'll see that Nikon suggests that you change the batteries when they take more than 10 seconds to recycle (20 seconds with Alkalines), while Nikon's published battery life numbers are made while waiting about three times longer to recycle.