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How to fire Sb-600 and studio strobe simultaneously?
Okay heres the situation. *hope this makes sense*
I own a nikon D700 and have been using the nikon sb-600 speedlight for some time and recently bought a studio strobe for an extra lighting source.
Can someone please tell me how I can fire both of these at the same time? When I fire the sb-600 on camera I see the studio flash fire but the images still turn out black. I even try using nikons CLS while using a flash sync cord for the strobe. Can someone please give me a walkthrough on what Im doing wrong here? I am such a newb on this whole lighting thing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nikon's CLS (Creative Lighting System) only works with Nikon flashes. It sends a pulse of light to fire the remote flash and then another to turn it off when the camera senses that enough light has been recorded to get a proper exposure.
You studio strobe is probably set to slave mode where it senses the initial pulse of light and fires. However, it cannot sense that second pulse to shut it off.
So, I'm guessing that by the time the studio strobe has fully fired, the exposure is already over. Therefore, you don't get the exposure you were expecting.
Here's my advice: set your flash (via your camera's menu) to MANUAL, not TTL. Then adjust the lights until you get the effect you're after. Normally, the remote flash (the studio strobe, in your case) would be the main light somewhere off to the side of your subject and the on-camera flash (the SB-600) would be the fill.
Other possible causes of your problem are incorrect settings of the flash. I've often found my flash set accidentally to red-eye mode or second-curtain flash. Also, make sure your shutter speed doesn't exceed the flash sync speed of your camera which is probably 1/250 sec.
Hope this helps,
Alan
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