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Just to follow up and end this thread, I got the SB800 back from Nikon service, all nice and clean, working, and they even fixed the pop-up diffuser. $130.

Three years old. No warranty.

It's off to Nikon for repair. (The SB800)

After talking to a repair guy and describing the symptoms, he recommended sending directly to Nikon; for the parts he figured would be required, an...

Thanks to all who thought about, worked on, and responded to my problem. I think I've got it. The answer is a service call. I went to bed last night thinking about this, and when I woke up, an answer...

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Thanks for the help. I think I will contact Nikon someway, and see if I canget their attention. If I knew someone in my area with an SB800 to try, I'd do that, too. A camera store? (The...

Back at it this morning.

With SB in master mode, CH 3 and Camera flash settings TTL,M, Commander, no go. Commander settings TTL, M, AA. No go. No flash at all from remote SB600 set to 3A.

Take...

Thanks. I think I tried that, along with setting the D70 in its several different flash modes. I'll go back and try it again, to make sure.
Ben

I can't figure this out. Maybe (hopefully) you can.

D70 with SB800 as MASTER on hotshoe. Remote SB600, set to remote, CH3 GrpA. MASTER set to CH3, A set to TTL (or M, or anything).

Problem:...

I got better results with a similar setup when the camera was set to P (program). Of the two images you posted, the first seems OK to me; maybe it's because my monitor is over-lightening things?
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Hi.
I use the Lightshpere in my dog photography business, and it works very well. Sometimes I use it directed toward a reflector without the dome, sometimes aimed directly at the subject with the...

Here are a couple of quick-off built-in/SB800 comparison shots. The SB800 had one of the Gary Fong LightShpere diffusers.
http://www.geoprosystems.com/test%20pictures%20D70/flash-example1.jpg
and ...

The stock answer, of course, is "it depends." On what type of pictures you take, on what your expectations are, on your budget (SB600 vs 800), and on and on. The advantages of the SBxxx over the...

I have the tripod (not the head) and use it for landscape photography with a D70. Very sturdy, adjusts easily, works smoothly, don't know why it wouldn't work for weddings.

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Our first dog. Not quite three pounds.

I think I made a mistake when I bought my D70. I passed up the kit lens to use instead a couple of Nikon AF lenses I had from the film era (about 20 years old). Increasingly unhappy with the...

After browsing through all 30 (today) pages of this thread,, and seeing all the beautiful places you guys live and visit, I thought I'd share a shot from my hometown. ;)
Ben

Thanks, Murray, for the links. I hadn't found those, and they were quite helpful. My afternoon experimentation has me jumping for joy. I went from thinking about sending the SB800 back to thinking...

With some more time for research, unclouded by sleep, I found the following threads on another site addressing these (apparently common) questions. Rather than re-write or paraphrase what I found...

I got an SB800 today to act as a remote flash for my D70. This evening, I sat down with the manuals (I was going to have a glass of wine; I'm glad I skipped that) and started reading/experimenting....

..or tell me I'm off base.
My understanding is that a raw file has the values that fell on the sensor, unprocessed. Therefore, the only thing that can affect a raw picture are things "in front" of...

D70, f3.3, 1/30 sec (prbably leads to the blurring.) COMSIL (cat of my sister in law)

Taken with an low end Olympus digital. Reworked in Photoshop.

Given that the other, unmentioned, settings (e.g. ISO) are reasonable, it sounds like something's "broke". If you got the camera from a nearby store, I'd take it back and go thru a demo with them. ...

The link below points to pictures from a test session this morning with the D70. Photography 101. All were taken with auto white balance and ISO 200. m1a, m2, m3 refer to the color space - sRGB,...

1) The comment about the lens was really driven by "equipment lust", not really a belief that my lens is bad. :-) However, during experimentation and manual reading, I came across this, in the...