How to use off camera flash

Chris Rutter teaches you the basics of wireless flash systems. He also goes into detail by showing you the basic settings for wireless flash with a Nikon D300 and an SB-800 flashgun.

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[jonfletcher147]

Great job....I wish you would reply to some of the questions on here though..please! ;)))

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[asigravitate27]

3:50 Best face ever

[DAH265]

Thanks so much! I've been attempting to accomplish this using Nikon's user manual for a while with no luck. This has me up and running within 4 minutes. Awesome! Thanks!

[grimfaug666]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial man, really good explained!

[zboe100]

mine has a cord somtimes it flashes sometimes not :(

[bblove302]

I have a question - how do you get your 580EX II to work in a softbox?

I just bought a Photoflex Flash trigger/receiver and it didn't work. When I take a picture using my Canon 50D the flash isn't firing off and when I pressed the test button on the trigger the flash did fire.

It's just whenever I take a picture, the flash isn't firing. is there some sort of special setting that I need to do on my camera?

If you can help me, that would be great. Thank you.

[kermitdafrog121]

@jigsawpk the in-camera flash sets of pre flashes a split second before the shutter goes. these send a signal to the external flash after the camera calculates the required amount of light (it does this all within less than a second). For this reason, the light from the in-camera flash has to be within range of the external unit, so the receiver can pick it up. something like the su-800 uses infra-red instead, so you have a much longer range and can use it on really sunny days.

[dilnuwan]

Great 

[jigsawpk]

So does this mean that I don't need any sort of wireless transmitter?

Even if the settings are changed I still don't understand how does the flash gun know when to pop? :S

[vittorbruno]

Congrats! Brazil congrats for you job! thank you for your post!

[SueyBones]

thank you sooo much for this tutorial!!