For the opportunity Nikon Speedlight SB-700 Flash Review many thanks Sergey Svirida.
Type of flash Nikon Speedlight SB-700
Nikon SB-700 is an advanced amateur flash. An excellent alternative between professional SB-800, SB-900, SB-910 and unpretentious SB-600. And the Nikon SB-700 is much better SB-400.
The flash has a fairly compact size and a number of good properties, such as:
- Flash zoom from 24 to 120mm... This is a good indicator. Often amateurs use lenses like 18-55mm, 18-105mm, 18-135mm, for such lenses the Nikon SB-700 flash will be enough for head-on illumination.
- The flash may work in command mode Master and control other flashes that support the creative lighting system Nikon CLS. The flash can control two groups of flashes A and B. More advanced SB-900, SB-910 can control three groups of flashes simultaneously.
- The flash works perfectly in slave mode with Nikon CLS. I set fire to the SB-700 without any problems using the built-in flash on my Nikon D700.
- Unlike SB-600The SB-700 has the ability to work in SU-4 mode and set on fire by any pulse flash.
- The Nikon SB-700 has a built-in reflector card and built-in diffuser, which are hidden in the flash head. A diffuser is a very useful thing that helps out in difficult flash conditions.
- Comes with a flash two filters and a large diffuser. And in the kit there is a foot stand for the flash and a square case. It’s convenient to mount the flash on the foot and place it on a tripod to create creative lighting. But SB-900 has a cover that can be comfortably worn on a belt, unlike a cover Sb 910, SB-700. The Nikon SB-700 kit is pretty decent.
- The flash works on 4 batteries or rechargeable batteries. Recharging is fast, recharging is very dependent on the flash mode and the quality of the batteries or batteries.
- Of course, the SB-700 supports FP fast sync mode, which will allow you to shoot at any shutter speed up to 1 \ 8000s, which is very important for daylight.
- The SB-700 has a huge display on which all the settings are accessible shown. The SB-700 has a very nice flash switch.
- SB-700 has overheat protection. Bringing the SB-700 to overheat is very difficult, much more difficult than SB-900, SB-910. The overheat function is not disabled.
- The flash head rotates all 360 degrees, it is very convenient when working with lighting from the ceiling and walls. Also, the head rotates 97 degrees up / down.
Personal experience:
The Nikon SB-700 is a great value for money flash. It is lightweight, fairly cheap, and very functional. Nikon SB-700 works great in i-TTL auto modes. Prior to Nikon SB-700, to be able to remotely control Nikon flash units on unsupported cameras Nikon CLShad to buy expensive SB-800, SB-900. Nikon SB-700 was able to collect pleasant controls SB-900, SB-910 and ease of use by amateur photographers with the ability to work with Nikon CLS. I am often asked what kind of flash to purchase, I always recommend to fans and advanced users of the Nikon SB-700. Professionals themselves all know what they need. I personally use SB-900, SB-910 due to slightly more power and uptime in all conditions.
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And here are the prices for the Nikon SB-700:
All Nikon Speedlight SB-700 Prices
Conclusions:
Nikon SB-700 is a great flash. Best price / quality option from Nikon. The flash works in slave and master modes, has good power, quick recharge and compact size. Recommend.
Help to the project. Thanks for attention. Arkady Shapoval.
It looks logical. THX.
Sleep super. Vikoristovaya z D80, D90, D7000. Quick recharge - with good batteries - Sanyo 2500mAh Eneloop XX. It’s even more rare in TTL in the vicorist evenings (I don’t get it) - even if the evening is over, I’m starting to sleep again and again. I turn on the manual mode, until five to shoot and the result is a photo buzz.
Faced with the fact that in the Cl \ Ch modes (high-speed arrows), there is a frame-by-frame decrease in power, and the frames are completely dark interspersed. Is it a weakness of the batteries, or the flash does not have time to take charge? Accums Enelup, not the worst ...
all puffs like that. and sb910 too. even if put in 1/2 power. conclusion: you need a long series - put 1/8, or if you shoot in TTL, there should be light conditions so that the energy from the puff is spent little by little.
I am an amateur. I got a flash nikon sb 700. And the zoom indicators on the flash do not change. That is, under the control of a button, and then a wheel, there are no changes, everything froze at number 10. Of course, this is probably under the influence of my controls))). But I really want to fix it. So please help me set up the flash. Thanks in advance…
Natalya, maybe you have the upper diffuser extended (plastic corrugated plate) or is the cap put on (the same diffuser)? Then the focal length for the flash does not change.
Thank you so much…. You are right, I had the diffuser down…. Thanks again…
Straight, I love you for what you are. The only site on which you can find answers to the most tricky questions of inexperienced users. I had the same problem
Faced a problem. SB-700 and D7000. TTL works only with a flash in the forehead. If shooting at a ceiling / wall gives very little momentum, the result is an underexposed shot. In manual mode, everything is fine. Is it a marriage, a feature or my crooked hands?
When working from the ceiling or walls, be sure to enter a correction, because the distance changes to the object in the forehead or through the ceiling. And the higher the ceiling, the more correction is needed.
Does the flash work in aperture priority mode?
And how!
Faced with the fact that the flash stopped working from the battery. Tell me why this could happen? no problems with batteries, everything works. What settings can do?
What is a battery?
Batteries are batteries
1. the 700k does not have a special setting for different types of batteries
2. Most likely they can sin batteries
11 point: not 360 degrees, but 180 one way and 180 the other way and not 97 degrees up / down, but 90 up, and 7 down! need to be corrected for a more accurate description!
Good afternoon!
There is a Tokina 11-16 mm DX and Nikon D7200 lens.
I want to buy an SB-700 flash, but the specs specify a focal length of 24 mm.
Please clarify the situation, will there be dark angles in the pictures when using Tokina at 11 mm focal length in conjunction with the D7200 and SB-700?
Thank you in advance for your response!
Vladimir
Unfortunately it will be. On my sigma 10-20 with a focal length less than 16mm, the sb-700 leaves not very noticeable dark angles. On the other hand, the problem is solved:
1) either puff on the ceiling, as poking in the face is generally a noble thing :) And the light will be more pleasant.
2) either buy some minisoftbox, a diffuser on the puff. You can use for starters and complete (there is a white nozzle). With these nozzles, the light will spread more evenly and there will be no more dark corners.
Put the diffuser - and it won't.
Excellent thank you!
Then the choice is predetermined. We will use diffusers and “puff” into the ceiling.
Well, in the case of dark corners, perhaps this is all fixable in Lightroom?
Be caress, who knows, what will the Nikon Speedlight SB-700 be with the Nikon D-200 and Nikon F100? Dyakuyu
My d200 works in the main modes. I did not check everything. Until I got to them.
Hello, I have such a problem here, in general, the zoom button doesn’t respond, I press, but nothing happens, and the number in brackets, with which constantly 14
You probably have the built-in 'diffuser' extended - slide it in completely. Or the position sensor of this lens is broken.
Who will tell you whether the head rotates in it in the horizon, there are no buttons and there is play, but does not want to rotate. I did not find anything in the instructions for this rotation, it irritates the play, but I just bought it. Help!
On the head on the right there is a button under the rubber band. By pressing it, you can rotate your head 180 ° to the left and right and 90 ° vertically.
Thank you, but the description says the horizon and the vertical, it just dipped, and as I did not break it, the effort was not weak, but stopped in time and turned here, Puff class, but honestly if I knew that the indicator backlight does not turn off, then I’d better take the NISSIN SPEEDLITE DI600, the green light is very annoying, and I don’t know how to turn it off.
Oops, I rejoiced early, and although I didn’t find a word about the tea on the box, it was just japan, it turned out that the autofocus backlight (Nikon 5200 camera) didn’t work for me, I decided to try it in complete darkness, but it doesn’t growl, but it cannot focus, Well, the bulb naturally doesn’t shine from the puff, I didn’t want to, but I had to pack it back into the box, I will take it.
Can the backlight be turned off in the camera settings?
Kind!!!
Tell me, please, I attached the Industar 60 l / d lens to the Nikon D61, there is a sb-700 flash, I tried to shoot macro: with a flash on the stand, I set fire to the built-in flash at minimum power. Everything is fine with this, but maybe someone knows:
1) Is it possible to completely disable the built-in flash? or how to make it more practical?
2) I install the sb-700 on the camera, everything is in manual mode, on the camera M, on the flash M, and the flash does not fire ...
Thank you!
1. Well, if the built-in power is regulated, you can set the value “-“. The flash will not fire, although the pre-flash will remain. At least so with me.
2. Maybe she falls asleep while you are preparing a shot? Try disabling standby.
In CLS mode, the built-in flash still gives a weak command pulse. You cannot turn it off completely.
You can, it’s written here https://radojuva.com.ua/2012/06/nikon-cls-master-slave-mode/
2. Even if the flash 'falls asleep' on the camera, then when the camera starts metering, it should 'wake up'
But when starting metering, my (SB-800 true) does not always want to wake up. It happens even after the shutter is released. Maybe someone also has such a glitch. Moreover, the outbreak in M. It will not be superfluous to pay attention.
Strange.
I did not notice this either on the SB-900 or on the Nissin Di866, (+ D5100 and D7100), but tens of thousands of frames have already been shot, more often in TTL, of course, but there are a lot in the manual, and everything is ok with radio synchronizers - the flashes fall asleep , when the shutter is pressed halfway, they wake up (being installed in the remote receiver).
Unfortunately, it will not work with budget amateur ones (which do not have FP mode), and the flash battery will eat twice as fast.
Often, you can close the built-in flash with some kind of paper / foil (on adhesive tape, for example), so that the light from the flash does not get on the subject but gets on the ignited flash.
And you can also attach an IR attachment to the built-in flash - it is made of a 'black' CD-disk, a magnetic disk (a la floppy disk 3,5), or something similar, then there will be almost no light pulse in the visible range, and the remote the flash will fire.
help the camera d610 flash 700 I can not photograph only 200 at short exposures and that's it
(( what to do?
Shutter speed does not allow. But there is a way out. Switch to S or M mode then the shutter speed will be set by you, and the flash will operate in high-speed sync mode (if it is turned off on the flash)
Well, I’ve tried on a photocamera in M and A, I also set FP on the list and all the same up to 200 maybe I need to include something in the photocamera or where?
In the camera, select: 1/250 sync speed (AutoFP)
Hello! Tell me, is it possible to repair the sb900 with my own hands? Reason: wedges the rotary mechanism, does not rotate left-right
Disassemble, look. If it works out - write.
please tell me, I have a sb-700 and the flash zoom only reaches 85-18 lens at least. what should I do
what to do, what to do!
Budem will be upset, comrade Ordzhonikidze!
Good afternoon.
Advice is needed.
I have a Nikon 7100.
I decide on the purchase of additional flash.
Or used 800 or the new 700.
What I am photographing, with which additional flash with the camera should be edited:
1. photoshoot of BABIES at home,
2. photos of the holidays of babies in cafes, etc.
I look forward to hearing as a nightingale of summer.
new seven hundred definitely
The SB700 flash fell, it was in a case (as it was packed in a box), it fell from 2 meters from the mezzanine to the carpet. When turned on, it writes the eror zoom, does not respond to manual zoom with the button. When turned on, it zooms to a narrow angle to the end and returns to vibration glass to the diffuser. What could be that the worm has moved away or the frame with the reflector and the lamp has shifted from the runners. Is there any fire in the TTL or in the m. Who came across? I heard this bug sat 700.