Nikon D50 and Sunpak 444

I could use some help. I am a very experienced photographer, many years and in

many formats, but I am new to the high-end digital world. I just got myself a

D50 for my first ventures into digital and it's great. I use it in my studio

with a little remote-flash thing in the hot shoe and my Norman strobes

supplying the light.

I'd like to use some of my shoe-mounted flash equipment if I could. I have a

Sunpak auto444-D flash. It is very capable. It has a Nikon NE-2D module on the

bottom. Problem is, when I put it into the D50 hot shoe and set the camera

to "Manual" I can'g get the camera to shoot/fire at all.

Someone please tell me if what I am trying to do is even possible. Should I

get a different module? Just forget the whole thing and get a SB-600? Try

other settings on the camera or flash?

You have two options (this is also covered in other threads, but I had trouble finding the info, so here it is again):

<br><br>1) buy a STD-1D module for your 444D and lose the TTL pin (which won't work anyway)<br><br>2) put a piece of gaffer's tape over the foward-most contact on the flash hot-shoe. This worked for me on my D200 and 444D, see <a href="http://blog.willowisp.net/?p=25">my blog post on this issue</a> with a DX-12R (I also own and have tested a 444D)<br><br>HTH,<br>j.