So if I attach this to my flash, it'll respond to the D40's on-board flash? It'd be great if it worked with the little SB400 I've got. Anyone know anything?
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Started 2 years ago by Flintz
This little gadget will fire the slave flash. Can be attached to any current Nikon Speedlight and many previous models. I have SB400 and hope it will work well with it. I hope it is worth to buy for the D40 users. How do you think?
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PhotoModo replied 2 years ago
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SouthsideDuc replied 2 years ago
It will probably fire the SB-400 but you will have no control over the flash output. In other words, the combo would be pretty useless. You need a flash that has a manual setting (SB600 or Vivitar 285 for example).
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Flintz replied 2 years ago
Help!!
Isn't SU-4 working with SB400. I bought it from a camera accessory shop. The sale-person test it with some Niikon flash (big one, don't know the type) and it was working at the shop.
When I get back home and test it with my SB 400, it doesn't work. I have no idea and what to do. The flash ready light on the SB400 is on but it doesn't respond to any flash.
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Flintz replied 2 years ago
Thanks SouthsideDuc for your reply.
Yes, J. Craigen, I'm thinking of putting my Omnibounce diffuser onto SB400 when using SU-4. But I don't know whether I should buy SU-4 so far.
Thanks Benrobertabq for your kind explaination. Buying accessories for camera is headache for me. I singapore, most of the camera shops are always merciless and trying to sell with very high price. If we do...
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Flintz replied 2 years ago
photomodo: I believe it will work well with SB400 as well. Minimal amount of flash on the built-in flash will trigger the slave flash mounted over it. We can do a lot of experiments and variety of creations. how nice.
southsideduc: Can we adjust the amount of flash by putting the flash in various distances, can't we? Don't you think it work?
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SouthsideDuc replied 2 years ago
Flintz, moving the flash away would result in less light but would create issues with spill. Easier just to buy a cheap manual flash.
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benrobertsabq replied 2 years ago
The SU-4 is essentially just an optical trigger, although probably a reliable one, and with a Nikon brand of course.
If you just need an optical trigger you can get a simple one for about $15 on eBay search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=optical+sl ave+fla... that should fire any flash, Nikon or otherwise.
I'm not even sure how easy it is to find the SU-4 any more, I ...
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benrobertsabq replied 2 years ago
The Strobist site really is a wealth of information about lighting in general, as well as off-camera flash.
There's also a Strobist forum on Flickr as well, worth a look, or you can post more lighting questions there if someone hasn't already got a post that gives you the info you need.
Good luck!
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Elias.e.r replied 1 year, 11 months ago
The SU-4 is a optical trigger, it responds to the on-board flash on your camera. It will fire the strobe like it was on the hot-shoe.
But the SB-400 does not have a manual mode, it has two modes, ON and OFF. The SB-400 only supports i-TTL (Through The Lens metering), it will probably not fire with a SU-4 because it'll need instructions from the camera.
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