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Archive 2013 · ControlTL woes sb-700?

  
 
JoeVincent
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · ControlTL woes sb-700?


I just spoke with someone at the Mac group. They told me my sb-700 sitting on a TT1 won't control an sb-900 sitting in a FlexTT5 other than just fire it. ( No off camera ttl)

The sb700 is in master mode, it will fire the sb-900 fine but I have no TTL and no exposure compensation that I can dial in from the sb-700. I can turn off the sb-900 but no exposure compensation.

The guy said the problem is with the sb-700 i snot supported, but the sb-700 works fine to control the sb-900 with CLS.

The guys solution was for me to buy an sb-800, 900, 910 to replace the sb-700 if I want to control the sb-900.

This make no sense why I can't use my on camera sb-700 to control a remote sb-900.

Anybody else here have sb-700/800/900/910 and tt1/TT5's that they can test for me?

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Jul 24, 2013 at 01:23 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · ControlTL woes sb-700?


Sounds very odd.

This won't answer your question directly but the ac3 zone controller really is the best part of the system and would avoid this issue unless you specifically want a flash on the camera and off the camera at once for some reason.



Jul 24, 2013 at 02:19 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · ControlTL woes sb-700?


I don't have a 900, but throwing the SB700 on the TT1 has controlled anything on the TT5 just fine.


Jul 24, 2013 at 02:19 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · ControlTL woes sb-700?


I'm pretty sure that last week I had my 700 on top of the TT1 and my 800 on the TT5 and it worked perfectly.


Jul 24, 2013 at 09:00 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · ControlTL woes sb-700?


Thanks everyone. We got it worked out. It's working fine now. I called back and spoke with someone else.

We did factory reset on both units, then I powered it all on top down and it worked as we expected.

On the PW website they say the sb-700 is not compatible doing ratios with controlTL units. I'm not trying to do ratio's, just simple TTL. He said I could use the 900 to control the 700 doing ratios and TTL but not the other way around.

Yeah, I thought what that tech said sounded bogus unless Nikon had crippled the sb-700 in some way. Glad it all worked out and thanks to all for weighing in.




Jul 25, 2013 at 01:48 AM





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