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Nikon SB28 as slave fitted to trigger hot shoe with Canon Powershot SB45

Both camera and flash fitted to old Cobra flash bracket. Poor quality shot taken in mirror in dark hallway - but illustrates use of slave flash.
NikonFlashWithS45_2.jpg
NikonFlashWithS45_2.jpg

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Rod Mould05-Jan-2007 11:24
The picture shows the built in flash triggering the SB28. The SB28 has been fitted with an infra red remote - which I purchased from a camera shop for about £10. Most digicams have a pre-flash with the camera in auto-mode. The pre-flash will trigger the slave before the picture is taken. As I remember - to do the slave flash on the S45 you need both the camera and flash set to manual. With the flash set to manual the pre-flash is not activated. Also I think I minimised the flash output from the built in flash so that the slave dominated.

Looking at the specification of the C-760 it looks like auto-only for the flash - so it could be that you can't de-activate the pre-flash.

Rod
Ervin 04-Jan-2007 14:15
Hi,

how could you set up the SB28 as a slave? I tried to use with Olympus C-760, but I did not work.

Ervin
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