Dental (MACRO) Pictures

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I have been using a Fuji s5 Pro for a few years for taking dental images, which are a mixture of portrait and macro images - never had a problem. Purchased a NIKON D700 a few months ago, and again, great images, sharper than S5Pro, so very happy. However, I lent the Nikon to a colleague, and since its return, I just cant get the images to be correct.
Before, I could simply point and shoot -
used the following settings -

Extra Oral
- f5.6
manual focus
ISO 200
TTL Flash
shutter speed 125
WB = lightening bolt

Intral Oral / Mirror shots
f28
manual focus
ISO 200
TTL Flash
shutter speed 125
WB = lightening bolt

all of my images are way over exposed - any help advise would be much aprpeciated as I have tried working this out for a couple of weeks and am not gettign anywhere -

For reference I need maximum depth in all pictures, especially the intra oral, as well as as close to true colour as possible

I use a NIKON 105mm 1:2.8G lens, and NIKON SB-R200 speed lights too
 
What shooting mode are you using, Shutter Priority/Aperture Priority/Full Manual, also what are metering are you using, Spot/Centre/Average?
 
This happened to me a bit ago. Turns out when I'd been messing around with settings, i'd increased the exposure compensation. Dunno if that's the case here, but worth having a look.
 
If summat's been fiddled with, and you're not sure what, you could try a full reset to factory defaults and then reapply your settings. Does the flash also have a reset function? Not sure with Nikon.
 
Check that exposure correction isn't locked in somewhere. Do you get the same overexposure when not using flash? If not it may be something connected with the flash unit. Not sure about Nikon as I am a Canon user, but you can put a flash bias in with Canon, I'm sure the same is with Nikon. Make sure there is no exposure bias on either flash gun
 
i tried another lens - same type etc - but from a freinds fuji s5 pro - and the images are fine with those settings, so i should presume that the lens is faulty ?
HAVE TRIED THE RESET - AND i am working on Manual Apeture setting -
ps thanks for all the replies
 
if i dial in 'minus 5' on the exposure compensation then the pics are 'ok' but dont understand why i am having to do this now -
 
Try your lens on your friends camera. If you get the same result on both cameras it would seem to be a lens problem.
 
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