SLR Flash on DSLR

fredjclaus

If anyone has a Nikon SB-16 and a Nikon D60 please PM me. I'm having problems setting it up to work properly on my camera. For some reason no matter what I set the camera on I get an ever exposed picture. From my 35mm days I know flash sync was always 1/60th, is that not true anymore?

when I use the guide on the back of the flash, that causes even worse results.

Art Scott

Depending on camera the flash sync will be from 1/250 down to 1/30th for slr type cams.
Another thing to worry about is the age of the flash....older film era flashes had really high trigger voltages and can easily burn the syncing circuits of modern DSLR's their trigger voltages, as far as I have found out, never exceed 6v and some older hotshoe flash units were up into the 200+ volt range.....so be very careful....I think I would recommend a Wein Safe Sync....an extremely good $50 investment when connecting an older flash to any digital camera.............

fredjclaus

As always Art, you are the man. I never knew about the potential damage the flash itself can do to the hot shoe. A fellow photographer in my town recently passed away her children gave me some of her equipment. One of the items was a 4-channel wireless flash trigger. I know 4-channels are not all that great but free is a great price for me. I think I'll be using that more often now. Just need to figure out how to hold the flash and take a picture at the same time. Event work doesn't allow for a flash stand all that much.

I found this ebay auction for the same Item I was given. Now I wish I didn't give away my Stroboflip bracket.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250402989398

Art Scott

Fred,

Thank You for the compliment.....I always try to help where I can........now I am blushing

Take a look at this site......PIXSYLATED........this long arm thing, much like Jeffereux2's Light on a Stick.....only much longer and possibly lighter.....never used either one.....but it definitely looks like a very good option....even for me as a wedding photog.

fredjclaus

Now that's a cool idea. Who says you can't ever find anything useful at Home Depot.

GerryK

I believe that the SB 16 was made for film camera. If so, those flash units do not do pre-flash like the digital models. What is happening is that the flash is trying to do TTL, but since there was no pre-flash and digital flash to do the computation, the SB16 is doing a full dump.