Fill Flash with D200 & SB-800

ask Nikon

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Or try page 56 of the manual?

 

Just dial in the fill rate you want in the area for flash exp comp. I like anywhere from -0.7 to -1.7. i don't recall if you do it on the SB800 or the D200. With my D2x, it has to be done on the SB800.

 

Billy,

Two ways to do it:

1. As above, put flash in TTL and dial in compensation. Dialled in compensation on the D200 is cumulative, so if you dial in -1.7 on the flash, and have -0.3 on the camera, you will expose at -2.0.

2. Put camera in matrix metering and change mode on the SB800 to TTL BL, or TTL BL FP.

 

Billy,

Just for your info, my previous answer was a real quick and dirty. I'm re-reading Thom Hogan's D200 book as I prepare for a shoot tomorrow. I know that I will provide some more detail later.

 

Nice.

Very decent person.
Thanks Mark

 

No need to make it complicated-the SB800 is very very good. Use center weighted or matrix metering, press Mode on flash til you get TTL-BL and go. At any reasonable distance and fstop it will handle the exposure. It defaults to 1/60 of course. And you can go up or down 3 stops compensation with the center button on the flash.

 

You can use High-Speed sync, but since I have never needed this option till now I don't know right now if you have to set it in-camera or on the flash.

BTW - this is what I loved with my old D1X - 1/500 sync.

Cheers

 

E Book

There is an excellent E Book on the Nikon CLS. I bought it and highly recommend it: "Using the Nikon Creative Lighting System, A Step by Step Guide to Using the SB-600 and SB-800 Flashes." by Mike Hagen of OutthereImages.com.

 

Put the camera in S or M mode and pick the speed you want as long as it's equal to or below the sync speed.

Ronnie

 

Go into CSM menu on your D200, select e Bracketing/Flash, e1 Flash sync speed, select 1/250s (Auto FP). On your flash press Mode until you see TTL BL FP. I think you need to be in Manual or Shutter Priority. You can then select up to 1/8000 s.

 

The Nikons do BALANCED Fill flash in most automatic modes (e.g. 'P'-mode).
Balanced as in balancing the BOTH thefore- and background exposure.

Thom Hogan’s: shorthand for fill flash:
1.Camera in Aperture priority mode (lifts aperture restrictions)
2. Camera in Slow Sync (lifts shutter speed restrictions)
3. Flash in Standard TTL: no matrix/BL symbol (removes camera-induced balancing)
· Internal flash: via manual exposure or spot
· External Speedlights, via the Mode button
4. Dial in flash exposure compensation on the flash, as starting point use:

• 1 stop for people

• 1.7 stop for scenic fill