I have already asked this on the lighting forum but I'm hoping you guys may know a few tricks hmm lets hope so
I have two 300W studio lights and an SB600 flash mounted in a softbox
I want to get the flash to fire with the studio lights but because my hotshoe has the tranmitter fitted it wont pop up the flash so there is no pre flash to set it off
Do I have any option other than using an optical trigger mounted under the flash while it is mounted remotely?
if not is it possible to light this et up and achieve a decent result with a white background?
I am new to studio lighting and only used my SB600 off camera with the preflash in the past so its been dandy but now eeeeeh!!
I am taking pics on sunday of my children and my sisters and hoping to get some decent results to mount on a frame for my mum at xmas whats the suggestions.
I can get an optical trigger from my local shop for £35 but when they are £10 on ebay that really stings..
The SB600 is a great flash, but it does lacks the optical slave that both the SB800 and SB900 have. That is only reason I sold mine and ended up with a pair of SB900s. So, in short, you'll need the optical trigger - but a word of caution. Try it out first as I had very intermittent success using an optical trigger when I had my SB600.
I know this is not a very logical config, but I already have done this, triggering the Nikon flash with a cable and the strobes with the radio remote control. I have done this with an SB-800. For an SB-600 you will need a "remote" hot shoe,
see for instance: flash cord adapter FA-1 http://www.bocaphoto.com/products/new/nikon/nikonacc.htm and possibly a extension cord.
can't you trigger everything with the D300 ? the Sb-600 as a slave, the D300 being the master and contributing to the lighting, and the strobes in "flash trigger mode"...? much less reliable than a radio system; but this could work.
If I interpret the spec correctly you should activate the "photo sensor" on the strobes... and check if the commander on the D300 can trigger them (I have done this with mine, but I had to lower the synch speed to have them fire at the right moment). Not sure it will work with yours but it is worth a try.
I would think the preflashes of CLS would trigger the studio strobes if they were in optical trigger mode.
Can the radio trigger fire via a sync cord? If you have a body with a terminal maybe you could use that to fire the radio trigger than then CLS or the shoe to fire the SB600.
