SB 800

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I received an SB 800 for xmas to go along with my Nikon D70. So far, all of
my indoor pics appear to be underexposed.>>>


Hmmm. I got one as well. No problems with exposure so far. I'll have a look at
my settings.

RB

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I also got underexposed images for indoor photography with the SB-800. Now,
I am using +0.3 to +0.7eV exposure compensation. The D70's exposure meter is
following ANSI standard and not the Kodak grey scale. This might work well
for outdoor. But it seems to create problems with indoor flashlight
photography.

Gregor


"Keith" <kmman@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>I received an SB 800 for xmas to go along with my Nikon D70. So far, all of
>my indoor pics appear to be underexposed. I'm shooting at 200 ISO and
>shooting with the flash in TTL and the D70 in various settings (portrait,
>manual, etc.) I have a good variety of nice Nikon lenses (35-70 2.8, 20
>2.8, 80-200 2.8). Anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

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"Bobsprit" <bobsprit@aol.com> wrote in message
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>I received an SB 800 for xmas to go along with my Nikon D70. So far, all of
> my indoor pics appear to be underexposed.>>>
>
>
> Hmmm. I got one as well. No problems with exposure so far. I'll have a
> look at
> my settings.

Mine worked great right out of the box this morning. HOWEVER, it took me a
couple of hours to see the little note on page 79 that you need to set the
flash to channel 3 for it to work in Commander mode using the built-in D70
flash as a master. (Posting this to bump this advice up for anyone else
who's looking for this answer.)

- The World's Worst Photographer (tm)

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Well, I figured it out. I was using TTL BF. When I started using just TTL
(no BF), the exposures were perfect.
"Keith" <kmman@bellsouth.net> wrote in
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> Thanks for all the responses. I checked and my D70 is not set to commander
> mode. I have tried using the D70 and flash in almost every mode. Most of
> my lenses are "D" type. I guess I'll just continue to play with it and
> read the manual in more detail.
> "C J Campbell" <christophercampbellNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> The most common cause of underexposed shots with the SB-800 is
>> inadvertently
>> using the flash in command mode. If you set up your in-camera flash to
>> command mode using the D70's advanced settings menu and then forget about
>> it, attaching the SB-800 to the shoe, all your pictures will be
>> underexposed.
>>
>> If you set your camera up this way and then compensate by increasing
>> exposure indoors by about 2/3 stop then exposure will be correct, but the
>> exposure error outdoors will be less easily detected.
>>
>>
>
>

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C J Campbell <christophercampbellNOSPAM@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> The most common cause of underexposed shots with the SB-800 is inadvertently
> using the flash in command mode. If you set up your in-camera flash to
> command mode using the D70's advanced settings menu and then forget about
> it, attaching the SB-800 to the shoe, all your pictures will be
> underexposed.

This is not true.

Setting the D70 to commander mode only affects the internal flash (if
used), never the SB-800. Once the SB-800 is attached to the D70's
hotshoe the mode is set on the flash and the D70 custom function #19 has
no effect at all.

Walter