How does the built in flash on the D7000 do fill flash?

[kivis]

<p>My long gone FM3A had a fill flash button on the body so when I attached the SB-30 flash it worked perfectly. How do I do fill flash on the D7000?</p>

[Two23]

<p>You attach a modern flash, such as SB-400, 600, 700, 800, 900 etc. in the hotshoe (or use it off camera in remote mode.) When you push the shutter button, the flash will pulse with a tiny bit of light. It's a test exposure made super fast, to calculate the exposure. You can still do fill flash using the SB-30 by using either a flash meter or take test shots with the D7000 and checking the histogram.</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p>

[johnw63]

<p>Kent,</p>

<p>Won't the built in flash do "fill" as well ? I was thinking it did. </p>

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[lornesunley]

<p>The built in flash provides "I-TTL balanced fill-flash" - you have to have metering set to matrix metering. See the manual pages 143, 144, 145, 146, 147 </p>

[frank_skomial]

<p>For fill-in flash light, for pictures outdoors in sunny weather, the built-in flash may not have sufficient power at a bit longer distances. For this you will need stronger flash like SB800 or SB900, to possibly use the CLS/FP technique and faster shutter speed needed as dictated by strong sun light/ needed to provide comparable light level with the sun light and cut down sun influence by using faster shutter speed (faster than X-Sync), at close portraits.</p>

<p>The built-in flash in DSLR models from the upper shelf, while it can work as a CLS/FP commander for other CLS remote flashes, it cannot operate as a FP flash alone, mainly due to insufficient power, and therefore design limitation is imposed by Nikon.</p>

[dbcooper]

<p>I think the OP is looking for a Volkswagen, not a bolwn injected hemi. The popup flash can do the job. Lorne's comment is correct. "I-TTL balanced fill-flash" is what you want. It's through-the-lens metered, and in matrix metering mode the flash fill is auto-calculated by the camera. It's a very good system.</p>

<p>The only caveat to using the popup flash is that a kit lens will usually be fine with it, but, say, a 10-24 or a 17-55/2.8 will throw a shadow where you don't want it because due to their size, the lens/lens hood will partially block the light from the popup flash and throw a shadow halfway up the image. If you're using lenses like that, you'll need to get a speedlight onto the hotshoe, or preferably higher like on a flash bracket. Also, the closer a flash is to the lens axis, the more likely redeye will appear. Otherwise, yeah - the popup will work fine for fill, at least to get you started. </p>

[ann_overland]

<p>You might wanna turn up the ISO a bit to get a good result if ambient light is low. Or turn on the auto ISO. The auto ISO feature will adjust the ISO to balance available light with the light from the built-in flash or external speedlights. The feature is usually doing a pretty good balancing job. </p>