D70 SB800 sync at 1/8000s!

[Richard King]

Here is a trick

holding your camera, ready to shoot, look at your hotshoe. Get some electrical tape and cover over only the 2 contacts nearest the rear of the camera

Pop your SB800 on (any other flash will be fine)

Set the SB800 to manual power

Set the camera to manual

Set the camera to any shutter speed you like It will sync with your flashgun

If you are reading this, you will know why you want to sync faster than 1/500, so I dont need to tell you what choice of aperture and shutter speed to go with

Enjoy
(pops electrical tape in camera bag for this weekends wedding)

 

[rampanthamster]

only works on the d70?

 

[Almost_Invisible]

Lotta effort.
I just set my flash to "super FP" mode and it syncs at faster shutter speeds, albeit at lower power so distances reduce to single digit feet.
There not a similar option on SB800?

 

[Ozei]

Lotta effort.
I just set my flash to "super FP" mode and it syncs at faster shutter speeds, albeit at lower power so distances reduce to single digit feet.
There not a similar option on SB800?

Yes - on the SB-800 it's called Auto FP High-Speed Sync mode.

 

[Chris Primadona]

I was going to say, my 580exII syncs to 1/8000 on H mode

Not that much power but comes in handy!

 

[itsdavedotnet]

or just put the sb800 on a radio trigger.

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Lotta effort.
I just set my flash to "super FP" mode and it syncs at faster shutter speeds, albeit at lower power so distances reduce to single digit feet.
There not a similar option on SB800?

Hardly a lot of effort and FP doesn't give you a 'normal' single flash but multiple low-powered ones and, as you say, a vastly reduced range.

or just put the sb800 on a radio trigger.

you won't get 1/8000 on any of the current radio triggers, you'll be doing well to get 1/1000 and even then with any of the more modern Nikons you're still way past the sync speed.

Even with a D70/s anything above 1/2500 is pretty much a waste of time anyway

 

[Cheng]

Hardly a lot of effort and FP doesn't give you a 'normal' single flash but multiple low-powered ones and, as you say, a vastly reduced range.



you won't get 1/8000 on any of the current radio triggers, you'll be doing well to get 1/1000 and even then with any of the more modern Nikons you're still way past the sync speed.

Even with a D70/s anything above 1/2500 is pretty much a waste of time anyway

It's a lot of effort if you want to switch between manual and TTL flashes!
That, and it only works on D40/50/70. Great in 2005, not so good 6 years on - High Speed FP all the way..

 

[Flash In The Pan]

It's a lot of effort if you want to switch between manual and TTL flashes!

But why would you?

I think you're missing the point about FP, it doesn't give you one burst of light at your chosen power output, but rather a series of much lower-powered flashes....

 

[Cheng]

But why would you?

I think you're missing the point about FP, it doesn't give you one burst of light at your chosen power output, but rather a series of much lower-powered flashes....

I 100% understand both regular flash-sync and FP. The reason I would want to would be that if shooting with flash on camera (which the OP was describing) then most of the time I'm shooting in TTL, regardless if the camera is in M/A/S. So if I want to shoot past flash sync, I'm going to have to use FP or tape off the contacts. Now taping off the contacts means that I lose TTL, which means that I have to pull off the contacts when I want to resume shooting past the one shot!

 

[Cheng]

Oh, and if it helps, I did this for my D70 a few years ago for a few minutes, and then got sick of the fact that I couldn't have TTL anymore and pulled it off!

 

[specialman]

....but even in manual mode, the sb800 is the easiest flash in the worked to use so why not keep the flash in manual and either shoot manual in-camera or stick it in an auto mode and the camera will take care of the rest

Why do so many people think FP is good thing when it devours power so easily?....