AA joy of SB800

robinchee · 5th April 2004

Any of you played with the AA mode of the SB800? Real cool, it basically a more intelliegent A mode of the flash. Traditionally with A mode we had to separate adjust the aperture on the camera and the aperture on the flash. With the SB800 and D70 (or any other camera like S2Pro), the flash reads the aperture used on the camera. To make EV adjustments, we used to have to play around with the aperture, but with SB800 there is a +-EV adjustment.

Even better is that I tried ISO 1600 @ f3.5 with S2Pro ..normally this can't be done with Sb28. And exposures fine.

And one more thing .. the pre-flash is almost gone with AA mode, which seems pretty accurate compared to TTL.

gadrian · 5th April 2004

Originally Posted by robinchee

Any of you played with the AA mode of the SB800? Real cool, it basically a more intelliegent A mode of the flash. Traditionally with A mode we had to separate adjust the aperture on the camera and the aperture on the flash. With the SB800 and D70 (or any other camera like S2Pro), the flash reads the aperture used on the camera. To make EV adjustments, we used to have to play around with the aperture, but with SB800 there is a +-EV adjustment.

Even better is that I tried ISO 1600 @ f3.5 with S2Pro ..normally this can't be done with Sb28. And exposures fine.

And one more thing .. the pre-flash is almost gone with AA mode, which seems pretty accurate compared to TTL.

Yeah it works beautiful..

5th April 2004	#1
robinchee Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 99	AA joy of SB800 Any of you played with the AA mode of the SB800? Real cool, it basically a more intelliegent A mode of the flash. Traditionally with A mode we had to separate adjust the aperture on the camera and the aperture on the flash. With the SB800 and D70 (or any other camera like S2Pro), the flash reads the aperture used on the camera. To make EV adjustments, we used to have to play around with the aperture, but with SB800 there is a +-EV adjustment. Even better is that I tried ISO 1600 @ f3.5 with S2Pro ..normally this can't be done with Sb28. And exposures fine. And one more thing .. the pre-flash is almost gone with AA mode, which seems pretty accurate compared to TTL.