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SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:28 pm
by ozboyerp
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen,

A quick on,

I've been reading my manuals!!!

I have a SU 800 with 6 SB r200 for macro jobs and work very well, but I would like to use the SB 800 flash as well?

Can I use the SU 800 to control SB r200 and SB 800!!!!!

:cheers:

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:33 pm
by chrisk
of course. set the sb800 to remote mode and fire away.
i think from memory the su800 can control 3 groups, so you can have the sbr's on one group, (or seperate them into 2 groups), and the sb800 on a seperate group to better control strobe output.
(this is the way i set up my sb200's and sb800's)

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:38 pm
by aim54x
DROOLING!!! I want the R1C1 kit as well, and adding more SB-R200's would be awesome.

I think you should be able to use the SB-800 in place of a SU-800 as a commander, but not sure what you will get in terms of lighting though.

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:41 pm
by Yi-P
Rooz wrote:of course. set the sb800 to remote mode and fire away.
i think from memory the su800 can control 3 groups, so you can have the sbr's on one group, (or seperate them into 2 groups), and the sb800 on a seperate group to better control strobe output.
(this is the way i set up my sb200's and sb800's)


The SB800 can control 3 separate remote group as well as having a Master group which is itself in output control. So if you take the onboard SB800 as a 'firing' unit, you will have 4 groups to control.

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:49 pm
by chrisk
just on the sb-r200's, the close up filter is not included when you purchase sb-r200's seperately to the R1 kit. for macro work i find this invaluable and i think its pathetic that its not included in the sb200 package.

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:09 am
by aim54x
Rooz wrote:just on the sb-r200's, the close up filter is not included when you purchase sb-r200's seperately to the R1 kit. for macro work i find this invaluable and i think its pathetic that its not included in the sb200 package.

Thanks for the info Rooz, i'll have to keep that in mind if I am buying SB-R200's

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:16 am
by Oneputt
Absolutely I do it all the time, makes the R1C1 kit even more effective.

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:55 pm
by ozboyerp
Cool as...

After playing around.

Putting the SU 800 on the D3 I fire all SBR200 and the SB 800 with is Super fine

:cheers: Guys...

Re: SB 800 as a commander!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:59 pm
by ozboyerp
Guys

I shoot out some food photo, and I am more then happy with the result

Cheers Heaps again...

Tomorrow night is meal and beers night...

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: