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Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,Now it's small... Now it's big,,,,
Help me........ I can't stop!
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Oh my god that's a huge size increase.
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I've sent John into hypnosis.
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i think it's almost the same size of Canon 580ex II. Nikon is really catching ey...
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omg .. another reason y i should go for SB800
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I'm betting its too big for those free Rosco sample gels huh?
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what does the 900 supposedly do better than the 800 exactly?? thanks.
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off top of head...the guide number goes back and forth and supposedly it is more powerful but only by a bit. It can recgonize when its own gels are inserted and will transmit WB info appropriately to the camera, and it does head zooming based on DX if that's how you're shooting. So a 30mm lens will show up as 50mm on the head zoom, rather than 28mm.
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www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=71917374%40N00&q=SB-9...
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the zoom goes up to 200mm from what i heard and faster recycling time
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Don't forget the auto color balance recognition is for the next generation cameras ONLY -D3 & D700! Not even the D300!
If you use CLS the manual switch will be nice.
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petepixxx edited this topic 12 months ago.
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...But it goes to *eleven*!
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Nikon Speedlight SB-900
- guide number of 48/157.5 (ISO 200, meters/feet)
- wide 17-200 mm auto zoom range (expanded from the SB-800’s 24-105mm)
From Press Release:
The new Nikon SB-900 Speedlight is scheduled to be available in August 2008, and will have an estimated selling price of $499.95. The SB-900 will come packaged with the Speedlight Stand, Bounce Adapter, Color Filter Holder, Intelligent Color Filter Kit, Diffuser Dome and the Soft Case. The SD9 Battery Pack is also scheduled to be available in August 2008 with an estimated selling price of $230.00.
SB-900 Speedlight details from Nikon USA
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One nice thing is that it will work with the SD-8A also.
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eh. that's tiny next to my Vivitar. It's like 1.5 times the size of my camera body and weighs about twice as much. You darn kids with your new-fangled flashes. In my day, we had to fetch the light from the Sun and bring it back in buckets!
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 PMSL !!!
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geezz this is big..
I just 2 sb-800 .. they are great!
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Is that a big ass flash on your camera or you just happy to see me?
What?!
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indeed HUGE!!!
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Nikon seems to use the same "chassis" for their flashes. If you notice, the SB-28, SB-80DX and the SB-800 are all about the same (roughly).
This guy looks to be about the same as the SB-24, SB-25 and SB-26.
If worse came to worse it could be used as a defensive blunt object.
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You guys are too advanced for me. I'm still using my old flash - GN = atomic.
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Ray Pempengco edited this topic 12 months ago.
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you know what they say! Bigger is better!
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Ryan,
I'll bet you cheated. You probably just put some "Make my logo bigger cream" on your strobe didn't you?
I'm on to you!
~Adam
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Hey ACME, I bet that the light from the new model comes from that starburst dust too...
RMG
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multiple erections! cool!
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should have thrown an SB600 in there for good measure. :)
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Am I alone in thinking that the '800 has a more "streamlined" look?
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Streamlined? I'ts the Tatra T77 of flashes.
It probably makes your camera faster, too. A must-have for all PJs out there.
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The biggest improvement that the SB-900 has over the SB-800, is that the SB-900 now rotates 180' to either side, instead of stopping short at 90' to one of the sides.
This is makes an incredible difference in how you can bounce flash.
For that alone, the SB-900 should be an immediate upgrade for owners of the SB-800.
Neil vN
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...at least for those owners who regularly bounce the flash.
Did anyone find a "Strobist relevant" upgrade in the flash?
Is it confirmed that it still has a slave mode?
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neil,
comparing the two rotation mechanisms in my head, i dont see an incredible difference, but it's true one will get those few extra angles if they want to bounce the flash behind and over their right shoulder.
anyway, nikon, just like all successful companies, knows it is compelled to come out with "newer, better" models from time to time so as to keep their profit margins up. i mean no R&D went into this thing and they get to charge big for it as the "top of the line." perhaps more realistically however this flash, like many new items, is the "bottom of the bang for your buck line."
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the 180 to both sides would be a great difference... I've always been thinking why don't they do that on all flashes... I mean, it wouldn't cost anything.
think of portrait oriented pictures, camera tilted down, flash bounced off ceiling... I have to hold the camera upside down to do that... especially with wideangle.
the price and size are big drawbacks, though.
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Hey, does it have a button that makes it sudddenly get bigger like that, or is it automatic? For $500, I'll keep using my SB-800 and use the money to buy another monolight.
Kent in SD
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nikon is just a loser..
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Can all the "modern" nikon flashes be used as slaves? (SB-600,SB-800 and the SB-900)
Be triggered by an other flash I mean, ie. my SB-28 with skyport fires a SB-600? (not via CLS)
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This will be an instant hit for the paps shooting a red carpet. You can now use a 70-200mm lens with your strobe. I'm not a numbers guru, so I can't tell if they jacked up the output or of it's getting it done with better optics/reflector.
Having a mode button saves from trying to remember how to get to the mode menu.
I probably won't buy one. My 800s do what I need, and I have a Fong and a beauty dish that I don't want to lose function.
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mobyavid edited this topic 12 months ago.
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i wonder how much of a difference it would make say if you wanted to bounce it off a ceiling/wall that was alot higher/farther? just boost the zoom higher to get it to have enough power to go there and back. :) Obviously this might make the bounce too narrow if the ceiling is at like 10 feet.
I would love to do a test( or see one) of it being used in this creative manner. the $ some people say might not be worth to spend to get it, might just come back to haunt them, when their flash just cant do what they want. im a canon user and the 200 zoom seems like something even for me to look into more. maybe im just crazy lol
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Thermal warning is a nice touch (finally!), but no speedlight is worth near the price of, say, a AB800 with Vagabond II for my uses. Hopefully this drives the price of the SB800 down, though.
I keep thinking of Spinal Tap every time someone writes "the zoom goes up to 200."
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Jim Lafferty edited this topic 12 months ago.
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yes.. drive the price of the sb800 down,,, love the thought...!
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is it that much? and how much are you getting AB800 and vagabonds for? lol
I live in canada, so i cant really do that kind of comparason. because of brokerage fees, shipping etc.
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My old lady says she is waiting for me to bring home an sb-1200.
I told her that two sb-600s were just as good. Then she went into a muffled giggle.
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Looks very cool, sounds imporessive... but...
GN48 @ISO 200 ... I wonder if that is the GN at 200mm zoom? If so, then what's the GN at the lower end, for people shooting at, for example, 50mm?
How does it compare to other flashes? I want to upgrade to a Nikon flash, but this seems just on par with my existing Minolta that has a GN of over 50 @ ISO200 at 85mm.
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Is that thing throbbing?!?!?!
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only makes me happy because its inevitable that sb-800's and 600's will cost less.
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