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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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The D300 can control up to two groups of Remotes. Indeed,
Nikon uses the label
Groups
instead of the Remotes name
that I’ve been using. Each remote group can have multiple
flashes in it, though Nikon doesn’t recommend more than
three flashes in a remote group, and I don’t recommend that
you use multiple flashes in a remote group unless they’re all
trying to light the same thing and you need more power or
breadth of coverage than a single flash would provide. That’s
because the more flashes you set up, the more likely it
becomes that one isn’t seen in the preflash sequence.
But for a three-flash setup (the camera’s internal plus two
remotes), the D300’s wireless abilities are excellent, and all
that you need. (If you need more than two Remotes [Groups],
you need to substitute an SU-800 or SB-800 on the D300 as
the Commander instead of the internal flash. But that’s a
subject for another book…)
Here’s how to set up a three flash wireless shoot (I’ll use one
SB-600 and one SB-800 as the Remotes so that we step
through the remote setup for each; you could instead have
two of either or even SB-R200’s):
1.
Use Custom Setting #E3 to set
Commander Mode
.
a.
Press the
MENU
button to show the menu
system.
b.
Use the Direction pad to navigate to the
Custom Settings tab. Press the
>
key to enter
the Custom Settings menu.
c.
Use the Direction pad to navigate to Custom
Setting #E3. Press the
>
key to enter the Flash
