D70/s the FP High Speed Sync feature is
unavailable.
✦Guide Number. 125 at ISO 100 on
the 35mm setting. See your
owner’s manual for more specifics
on GNs for specific zoom ranges.
✦Automatic zooming flash-head.
Provides lens coverage from 24mm
up to 105mm. 14mm with the
included wide-angle adaptor.
✦i-TTL. Supports i-TTL, D-TTL, TTL,
and full Manual operation.
✦Slow Sync. Enables you to match
the ambient background lighting
with the flash so the background
doesn’t end up black.
✦Red-eye reduction. Fires off a pre-
flash to contract the pupils to avoid
“devil-eyes.”
✦AF-Assist light. Emits an array of
light from an LED to assist in focus-
ing in low-light situations.
✦FP High-Speed Sync. Allows you
to shoot with a shutter speed
higher than the rated sync speed
of the camera. This is useful when
shooting portraits in bright light
using a wide aperture to blur the
background. Works with D200,
D2X, and D2H camera bodies.
✦Modeling flash. Releases a short
burst of flashes allowing you to see
what the light falling on your sub-
ject looks like. Works with D200,
D2X, and D2H camera bodies.
✦Tilting/rotating flash head for
bouncing flash. Allows you to
point the flash head up for bounc-
ing light from the ceiling or to the
side to bounce off of the wall.
Main parts
Even though the SB-600 Speedlight is simi-
lar to the SB-800, it is still important to go
over each of the important parts of the
equipment. I’ve included figures and expla-
nations of the parts and features to give you
a better understanding of how each is used.
✦Flash head. This is where the
flashbulb is located. Inside is a
mechanism that zooms the flash-
bulb back and forth to provide
flash coverage for lenses of differ-
ent focal lengths. The flash head is
adjustable; it can be tilted upward
to 90°. It can also be adjusted hori-
zontally 180° to the left or 90° to
the right.
✦Flash head lock release button.
This button releases the flash head
lock allowing you to adjust the
angle for bounce flash.
✦Battery compartment lid. Slide
this downward to open the battery
compartment to change out the
batteries.
✦Light sensor for TTL wireless
flash. This sensor reads signals
from Commander units enabling
wireless flash.
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