Nikon SB-800 AF Speedlight for Nikon D50, D70s, D80, and D200 Digital SLR Cameras Review

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Hey what's going on everyone? I'm the DVD guy and today I wanna talk to you about the Nikon SB-800. Now this is actually a pretty fill domino flash. This is four. It works in almost all Nikons D50 D40 D70 D300 and it will work on some SLR. So they specify right before you buy in a lot of the bios online and stuff. You can read about it before you purchase it but just make sure it works for the camera that you're looking for or you know that you're using. So this is a pretty amazing device. As you can see you know I turn it right on it got a full digital display on the back which monitor your X-stop your distance everything. It's full out of focus. So it knows exactly how far you are and how would light should at be at when your shooting which is really amazing. As you can see this like this very bright. It got a full tilt range and go 180 in either way and then also just like that and it got the degrees here on the back. This thing is really VAT so keep in mind it is about $350 but you can get it use for $250 like one of the refurbish model which is not a bad deal. You might want think about getting the Nikon SB-600. It's a little bit more inexpensive but you don't get the digital display you don't' get a lot of features. So but if you just need something to go on and shoot some indoor shots or maybe something that you're trying out and you don't want to spend a lot money that might be an option for you. This is has a full out of focus as I mention and it does work with digital cameras and solars and then also it has the intelligent ITTL system support which is pretty amazing. That is a balance so it knows exactly how to balance the light for you which is pretty amazing. It also included with the fill-flash. It can automatically control the light from the output which is pretty amazing with the distance and aperture setting which I kinda showed you on the back as well. And then it also has like the it's called like a dot matrix LED display in the back. It's very simple display. I mean nothing like you to find in the back other Nikon camera but as you can see it's definitely does the job. Some other things right on the box whether if you buy it refurbished and e-mail me if you carries about where to buy this stuff I have a website for getting refurbish stuff and new deals or new stuff with great deals. So you get obviously this B-flash. You get that's the B-flash. You gonna get kind of a simple diffuser cover. Nothing great. I did go out and buy this separate this is a different kind of diffuser. This is more of a something like if you want the light to really diffuse and spread evenly you can use this Nikon so you don't need to but I highly recommend it. This was like 50 bucks if you bought it new. You can find them online so time is cheaper. You might just have to wait a little bit longer. Other things you get you get a standard. This is kind of flimsy but whatever if they give it you that's kind a nice. You gonna get like a you can see that like a different kind of like flash cover. And then you're also gonna get the stand. Now the reason why you got the stand is because this has a full if you can see the red here this is a full remote system. So you can set this up with another one and do full remotes so you basically don't have to bring your pudge lights if you have studios stuff. You know this is obviously not designed for studio work but if you're kind of doing something on the fly is kinda cool. The nice thing about this is also just how fast it shoots. You can just shoot picture after picture after picture just a super fast. So obviously I don't have a hood of the camera right now or else I could show that while it really just I mean I'll just shoot one shot right after the another. The other thing you get is this is actually the fifth battery. So this will help you to shoot that shot after shot. As you can see you just kinda take this out and then you can just apply the other one. It comes with the full lock so you don't have to worry about coming off I'm sorry I guess you can see right there. So you don't have to worry about coming off your camera. And then basically that's about it. You have the sync as well so you can sync this up as well as doing the remote. And that's pretty much it. I mean this is just a pretty amazing device if you do any sort of professional work or maybe just an obvious and you're kinda advance. So I highly recommend it. Thanks a lot.