africaddict

Sorry Tom

Forgot to mention, the BB can only be used
on tele lenses greater than 300mm.

cary999

Thanks Marc, I know what you mean about the spotlight not matching the flash. You have critical eyes, like me . The orange spotlight was in fact on my Serval cat photo on the grass behind (but not blatantly bad). However, I balanced out the spot color in Photoshop. Is that "cheating"? I also use FV and did a lot of focusing manually.

My main safari lens is now the 70-300 VR f4.5. (The Serval cat was taken at 135mm). I really am reluctant to carry anything bigger.

regards - tom

africaddict

Tom
You can still use the 70-300 with BB. Really from 200mm onwards (because of 1.5X crop factor) ;-)
I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, the 300 f/2.8 VR + D2Hs weighs 3.8kg's(8.5lb)

Cheers
Marc

africaddict

Hi Tom
Here's a good discussion @ Nikonians on the purpose of using flash for wildlife- ;-)
http://www.nikonians.org/dcforum/DCF.../16757.html#40

Cheers
Marc

cary999

Marc - many, many thanks for reference to the nikonian flash discussion. Just what I need at this time. I very much recommend this discussion to any one photographing wildlife and especially birds. Really good discussion wiht really good photo examples. Those (we) Nikon folks are really smart

I know now to set the SB600 at probably -1.5EV and use "back" on my D200 flash sync (except with Aperature priority mode it is "slow back", so I have to check that out). Got it set for TTL-BL. Had to RTFM to do this stuff. Now have to get a "model" and play.

Thanks again - regards - tom
ps - RTFM - as in "When all else fails, Read The F8888ing Manual"

africaddict

Hi Tom

Some more good info on using the Nikon TTL flash system here:
http://www.planetneil.com/nikon/flash.html
BTW, have you been out & about experimenting with RAW yet ;-)

Cheers
Marc