Nikon SB-910 Speedlight Unit

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I'm not joking about the steroid sub-header: it seems that everything about the SB-900 is bigger and stronger and maybe even a little more aggressive. What I really do like is the ability to adjust power remotely from the camera while using the Nikon flashes off camera. Last Update 2017: Nikon no longer sells the SB 900 or 910 and is moving to wireless RF flashes for their future remote flash and I for one can not wait for the benefit of the newer technology.

There is almost no audible noise from the inverter as it recycles; just a light noise if you used much power and then it goes silent. And here’s another thing that is important for some photographers- it is also much smaller and lighter! The change in thickness has to do with changes Nikon made to try to keep water out of the contact area. It's even worse that the SB-900 starts beeping terribly when it overheats, this is also not acceptable, especially when shooting in the temple, weddings etc.However, a growing trend at events and wedding receptions is to set up a 'photo booth' (and optional dressing up box) with fixed lighting, where guests can come to be photographed to commemorate the event. This license is not a sale of the Manual and you do not become the owner of the Manual through your purchase of any product, download and/or use. So, quit listening to those folks on the internet who say “if you put a gun to my head, I’d pick one of these two options.

And with refined operability including illuminated buttons for use in low light and improved thermal cut out protection, the SB-910 is the perfect partner to your D-SLR.Flash head style is something I want to play with a lot, but if the flash is in standby, for instance, I have to push one button, hold a second one, press that button again, use the control wheel, then press the button one last time to make a change.

The SB-800 is compatible with both types of TTL, but from the SB-900 and later, they can only work with DSLR’s iTTL. Button changes - one button on the SB-910 was reprogrammed, and it now launches the flash menu, in the SB-900 it was necessary to press and hold the OK button for this. On My SB800 for example, the dang thing ONLY works when you’re using the center AF point, and in Single-Focus mode ONLY.Yeah, I know that Nikon has kept the recycle time down on the SB900 / SB910, even with the 4 AA batteries compared to the five (possible) batteries of the SB800. When working with Nikon SB-900 with the overheating mode on, the flash after a series of firing simply goes into cooling mode, the overheating image appears on the display. The SB-910's color correction filters are critical to get the color of the flash to match indoor lighting; without these filters, the flash light would look too blue indoors at home or in good restaurants, and too purple under fluorescent lights. With the SB-900 mounted, the Speedlight's firmware is shown as the S value (A and B are camera firmware, L is lens, S is Speedlight).

I miss the dedicated LCDs of flashes like the SB-600, which are much sharper, cleaner and clearer than the less-legible dot-matrix displays of newer flashes like this SB-910 and the SB-700. In my opinion if you’re trying to bounce off ceilings that are so high that you can’t use an SB700 and you absolutely MUST have the slightly greater 1/1 flash power of an SB910, …well then you’re doing something wrong, you should be integrating additional lighting systems instead. What I don't like about the case is a common problem I find with all of Nikon's products: they just don't consider how we really use and carry these things. But what I can tell you for sure is that it is a nuisance having to change batteries more or less daily.

In all practicality, the SB-910 runs a long time and recycles immediately as it's actually used in its automatic modes. TTL works adequately enough for paparazzi snappers, which I suspect is the major speedlight market, followed by wedding and event users. The wording of the SB910 announcement is a bit hazy, but it sounds like there may have been SOME improvement in the function of the AF-Assist infra-red beam. Under Auto or Flash White Balance, most Nikons are smart enough to set the WB appropriately when you use the green filter under fluorescent light and the orange filter under normal tungsten and halogen light; there are little tabs on the filters that key a sensor on the flash that talks to your digital camera.