waynesview Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 <p>Been experiencing mis-fires with my SB800s (2 of them) lately. About every 3rd or fourth shot (D3 body) either over or under exposes. In commander mode, same problem - and the remote only fires intermittently (even when pushing the test button). I had both units in to Nikon Pro Services a few months ago to replace the bulbs. I've eliminated the batteries, the camera (WHEW!) and other possibilities. I borrowed a friends SB800 and no problems on my D3. Just wondering if anyone else has had this experience. Cheers from Murrells Inlet, SC</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdw Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 <p>Very strange that this would be happening on two units you recently had Nikon service and not on your friends unit. You don't mention how long it was between shots. Have you checked the standby setting on your flashes. Borrow your friends flash and run through the menus matching your setting on the two units to the friends unit and try again. If you still have the problem it seems you should be talking to Nikon rather than Pnet.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_sunley Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 <p>If you used the units enough to require new flash tubes, it just might be time to retire them. Any guesstimate on the number of times those flash units have fired?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_skomial Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 <p>Try to reset them with the 2 finger method.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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