danielsandlin

Sorry, it was a bout of accidental user error. Funny part is I did t find the answer on the handbook for the SB 600 or the D800 users manual. I just used Google and found it in Ken Rockwell's page on the D800. Somewhere along the lines I must have accidentally kicked in the red eye reduction. I Feel like an idiot. I'm so glad it was that simple. I can't afford replace any of my equipment. It taken me years to amass the gear I have. That D800 is as dear to me as my guitars and amps are. 

Sorry I made typo last night. It's the SB 600. I have two of them and they are working fine the last time I used them. I have an SU200 Commander. I used it to fire the two SB 600s remotely. When I stow my flashes I remove the batteries. But I picked them up last night to take some photos outside after dark and found both to be doing the same thing. I assumed it had to be my camera. I need to get new batteries for the SU 200 and theavro flashes that came with it. Then I can test that to see if it's my camera at this point.

I don't know what's happening here and I haven't done anything to my flash settings. I am having the flashes pre flash twice then flash and shutter actuates. I press the shutter button, then two pre flashes and then the shutter and flash fire for the exposure. I don't know if my SU 800 and macro flash ring is doing this because I haven't used them in awhile and the batteries died. I've gone I to my flash settings and nothing i changes this.

The only thread I found here did not apply to the Su800 bit the SB800 to SB 600. I need my SU800 to to fire my two SB600s. I bought the Nikon Commander Macro Flash kit a few months ago. A couple days ago I bought the two SB600s to use on my light stands to fire into umbrellas to replace the SunPak flashes on Yongnuo wireless set up I've been using for portraits.

 

I don't have the booklet for the SB 600s because I bought them used. I'm having a hard time browsing through the booklets for the Su800 because small print is hard on my eyes. It gets hard to read before I find my solution

 

Good luck! The D800 is a lovely camera. Buy fast cards if you don't want to be annoyed waiting in live view, and don't forget that the 1.2x crop gets you to 5fps if you find yourself shooting action. :)

 

 

I use the Lexar 1066x cards for all my cameras. I shoot more macro so for now haven't been using continuous mode. But that is also why the dust has been such a big deal because at life size and x2, x4 have been such a big deal because my aperture has been set to f22, f32.

Many thanks, I just ordered a cleaning kit. I saw the specks right where you said they'd be and all my rocket blowrs are long gone. I waited to too long to be able to get a D800 to go messing around without the proper tools. This thing maybe what keeps me afloat!

I will definitely check into this, the only other camera I want to buy right now is a second D300. I want to have a couple converted to IR.

 

It's been a while since I messed around this in depth with equipment is there a setting on the camera that opens the shutter to expose the sensor after ive orders the swabs ofcourse

Hey, I recently was able to afford to upgrade from a D300 to a D800. The camera I have I paid $661 for thru an eBay auction. The camera is in dynamite condition and had only 9,557 firings of the shutter.

 

It had been a while since I had been able to shoot a real camera again so I went to town in the Azaleas, and Primroses that have recently bloomed out front of my apartment. I have had a 100mm f2.8 micro and 4x life size converter so yeah, bug heaven too. Damn, this thing can digitally zoom in so I've been in heaven going from a 12mp D300 to the Beast! Then I started noticing a common anomoly in all the photos. These two sometimes three black dots to the upper right quadrant in all of my photos. At firsti could aware I could see some dust on the back side of the focus screen. Now I can't see them but still the dots remain in every photo. So is it possible that I have some dead pixels in my sensor?