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Photo : Nikon SB-400 AF Speedlight for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras |
- Outstanding!The flash is perfect for what we were looking for and the service was top quality all around!
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- great flash for your buckthis is an excellent flash for dslr beginners. just hook it on your hotshoe, (don't forget to) lock it, wait for the red light and you're good to go.
of course there are limitations... but if you're not in a hurry to get a flash, i would suggest saving it for sb600.
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- Great little flash, though somewhat limitedThis is a great little flash to start out with, and to carry with you everywhere. It's superior to a built in flash- with an 18-105mm, I get shadows at wide angles with the D60's flash, and of course the built-in flash cannot be bounced.
The SB-400 is tiny and light. It's much brighter than the built-in flash, and using it instead will greatly extend how long your camera battery lasts, though at the expense of using AAs in the flash. I have a pair of Energizer NiMH batteries in mine, and have shot at least 100 pictures using this flash, without changing batteries yet. It's small enough to fit into just about any camera bag and take everywhere with you, unlike larger speedlights like the SB-800. It's also about half the price of even the SB-600.
It does have limitations. It doesn't pivot horizontally, so you can't bounce it off the ceiling when taking portraits. Also, it has no functionality with Nikon's wireless flash system- the only easy ways I can see to fire it remotely are the SB-28/29 cords, and the SU-4 controller, which will fire the flash you attach when it "sees" another flash firing. Being able to use this as a wireless slave flash would be nice, and would make this much more versatile.
If you're just getting started in photography, not going to use the features of an SB-600/800/900, or just would like a speedlight you can carry in your pocket, this is great. If you're wanting to eventually use multiple or just remote flashes, and don't mind carrying a larger, heavier flash, I'd go with an SB-600 or SB-800.
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- Awesome flash! Worth twice the money.I got this to go along with a Nikon D40 that I bought for my wife. It's difficult to see from the product pictures, but the flash head tilts so that you can bounce the flash off the ceiling to create much warmer images. It has a very quick recovery time and isn't a battery hog (however I would recommend using rechargeable batteries).
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- Worthless on a D90; get the SB-600First, you cannot adjust this flash to take portrait pictures. You can only bounce the flash off the ceiling in a small room when you are taking landscape pictures. If you turn the camera to take portrait pictures, you CANNOT adjust the sb-400 to point to the ceiling. SB-400 can only point from 0-90 degrees straight up and down, not side ways like the bigger SB-600.
Second, the flash is not strong enough, and it's no stronger than the built-in flash on my Nikon D90.
I have a high ceiling, and the SB-400 is not strong enough to give me a satisfactory exposure from a bounce unless I adjust the exp compensation way way up.
So it's bigger than the built-in flash, and you don't get a picture any better than from using the direct built-in flash with a home-made diffuser or Gary Fong's Puffer diffuser. I don't get the SB-400. I returned it and got the SB-600 from Amazon, and now there's a great external flash worth attaching to my D90.
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