Hello all, I am fairly new to using flashes and have recently purchased the Nikon SB-700. I now see I can buy some LumoPro LP160 or vivitar 285hv for a heck of a lot cheaper than a set of SB-700. Can I mix these up and use them all together?
What exactly would I need? just some remote triggers?
Thank you for the help, Ive tried googling but cant seem to find anything, i must be missing something...
kainu7 wrote:
...I can buy some LumoPro LP160 or vivitar 285hv for a heck of a lot cheaper than a set of SB-700. Can I mix these up and use them all together?
I use a Canon 580EX and a Vivitar 285HV together all the time; I use a cheap optical slave to trigger the Vivitar, and use a long cord to connect the 580EX to my camera. The only "trick" is that the 580EX must be in Manual power-level mode so the camera doesn't trigger any metering pre-flashes, which would trigger the 285HV prematurely.
There are special optical slaves that can ignore pre-flashes, but I don't have any. Radio triggers would eliminate that problem, but I find that mixing TTL flash and manual flash can give inconsistant results, so I prefer manual flash power when using multiple lights.
