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✦ Mode and minus. When the
mode button and the - button are
pressed in conjunction the control
buttons are locked to prevent any
accidental changes to the settings.
The lock does not affect the
flash button and the On/Off
button.
✦ Zoom and minus. Pressing the
Zoom button and the – button
together switches to the Speedlight
to the Custom Settings Mode
(CSM).
The Custom Settings Menu is
covered in detail in Chapter 2.
SB-600 accessories
While the SB-600 doesn’t have as many
accessories as the SB-800, it does still come
with the SS-600 soft case for storage and
carrying as well as an AS-19 Speedlight
stand, which not only allows you mount
your SB-800 to a stand or tripod, you can
also use it stand the Speedlight on a flat sur-
face.
Other Components
of the Creative
Lighting System
You have your SB-800 and SB-600
Speedlights, but what else might you need to
round out your CLS? These two elements are
a great start, but that isn’t all there is to the
Nikon Creative Lighting System. However, the
components of the Nikon Creative Lighting
System are hard to define as a whole. For
example, the camera body is an integral part
of CLS and, you can use CLS-compatible
Speedlights with non-compatible camera
bodies, so the line gets a little blurred.
Your D50, D70/D70s, D80, D200,
D2H/D2Hs, D2X/D2Xs, or F6 camera body
works great with the Speedlights. However,
even if your camera is CLS compatible, that
doesn’t mean it supports every available fea-
ture of the Speedlight, as explained in the
earlier sections of this chapter. Be that as it
may, if you use any of the camera bodies
I’ve mentioned with any of the Speedlights
in the following list, you have some, if not
all, of the features of Nikon’s CLS.
✦ SB-800 Speedlight
✦ SB-600 Speedlight
✦ SU-800 Wireless Speedlight
commander
✦ SBR-200 Wireless Remote
Speedlight
✦ R1C1 Close-up Speedlight
commander kit
✦ R1 Close-up Speedlight remote kit
Camera compatibility
Some camera bodies only allow certain fea-
tures to be used with CLS. Table 1.1 shows
which functions are supported by each dif-
ferent camera.
Note
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