stephaniesaniga Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 <p>Can I use my Nikon Speedlight SB600 as a slave with a Canon 580EXII ?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 <p>Not without using an optical hot-shoe trigger like something from Weim, or a hot-shoe-to-PC adapter, and radio triggers for both.<br /><br />But the main concept is: No. The Canon remote command/control protocol is simply different than the Nikon flavor. Even if you use an optical trigger adapter with the SB-600, you'd have to dumb down the 580EXII so that it emits no pre-exposure metering/TTL pulses.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxdonny Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 <p>Matt, I thought the Nikon can also be triggered with any flash other than Nikon directly, without using the goodies that you mentioned above? </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 <p>F D: The SB-<em>800</em> can do that, but not the SB-600. And we want to be clear that even if it's an SB-800, it will only trigger on a single pulse from another strobe. That means the Canon flash would have to be used in a manual mode - no TTL metering or anti-red-eye pre-exposure flashes.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxdonny Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 <p>O.K. now I understand, and thanks Matt..</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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