richardbaer

Have discontinued our landline phone and thus Verizon, and soon all of my "verizon.net" e-mail addresses will be discontinued. So I am in the process of changing to a permanent gmail address and switching over to it. However, I can't figure out how to do it on the photo.net site.

Additionally, for anyone interested, during the above, I tested the onboard flash as Commander and as iTTL alone, and then with and without the SB800 as remote, and SB800 alone on the hotshoe. Bottom line, I cant see any appreciable difference if you leave the onboard flash set to Commander or not, with or without the SB800 other than the better quality picture with the two flashes used together. Light output appears relatively unchanged. Battery life is the only unresolved question it seems.

I ran some quick (handheld) tests with the D200 onboard flash set to Commander. There appears to be no appreciable difference in the results with or without the SB800, quantitatively. There are some subtle subjective differences which make the SB800 off the camera provide a better balanced overall picture (in my judgement) but quantity of light they appear almost identical. Of course, that does not answer the question of battery usage/life, but only time will tell on that question, if in fact it is significant at all.

Thanks Matt for your response. Sending the 200 back is not a reeasonable nor desirable option. I am trying to improve my shooting, especially over the D70 that I originally used and is now my backup. Yes, it did most everything for me, but I had less control and less flexibility so I moved up. I am also planning on running some tests with and without a remote flash, but it was late and I had hoped someone would know the answer. THANKS for the reminder about the recent items menu, that is a positive response even if nothing else works satisfactorily.

 

I think the first response was degrading. It basically said give up and go back where you came from, a new camera is beyond your capabilities. And how much knowledge and information is that recommendation based upon? Otherwise what is this forum for but asking questions and trying to improve one?s picture taking abilities? And sometimes learning from the experience of others is preferable to repeating the same mistakes other have already made. I will never live long enough to make all the mistakes myself, so I hope to learn from others.

This may be obvious, but nowhere on the forum or in the manual can I find it

answered. If you set the D200 as commander, but do not use the SB800, does the

onboard flash still function as an iTTL, and if so is there any disadvantage to

keeping it set to commander, so you can just turn on the SB800 when needed

without changing any menu settings? Does using it this way effect the flash

output, or battery life more than normal just using it as iTTL flash, not set

on Commander?