Foreign Perspectives

I got the Nikon SB600 flash as a Christmas present but have only just started using it a little bit.

Whilst the flash itself is light enough, adding in the four batteries makes for a pretty heavy chunk of gear to lug around when it’s attached to the camera itself. It’s an awful lot faster recycling than the on-camera flash with all those extra batteries and, of course, the more serious lamp that it has means that I should be able to use it much farther back from the action than I could with the oncamera flash.

I always think that people are incredibly optimistic about the ability of their little flash units on their compact cameras to illuminate entire stadiums sometimes. Still, at least it’s not so bad as it was in the good old days of film and they can just delete the image when it doesn’t turn out.

Must see about reading the instructions for this one at some stage as there’s lots of buttons and, of course, it links in with facilities on the camera too.