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For starters, I am a professional photographer. Although the SB-24 does not TTL with DSLR cameras, it works great as a manual flash. They are cheap and easy to come by. I trigger mine with pocket wizard remotes, but most less expensive triggers will work. (some at the expense of reliability) The newer SB-26 has a built in slave feature, but the price is a bit more. Pros: cheap, reliable, manual features, durable cons: no DSLR TTL, manual only goes down to 1/16 (although you can stop it down with gels) All in all a great flash for getting the light off the camera. Shoot through an umbrella and you have a great portable lighting solution. You can find more info online. I think the best source is David Hobby's strobist blog.
No matter how many aftermarket flashes out there, NOTHING compares to Nikon's Speedlight OEM's- Even Older Ones. The SB24 is a great, **Fully Functional with Nikon's Digital systems, Strobe Flash / Slave Flash, Primary Flash, for those in need of A. just less expensive options(Consider a $20 flash that breaks 1 month after purchase, when you ponder costs). B. It is a fully functional Optical Slave Flash-To ANY other brand Flash that works properly. When combined with any other multi flash setups, its great.(btw the SB24 is 1 of only a few with Optical trigger) It is fully adjustable with an LCD thats viewable, to 1/128th power, it supports Nikons FP strobe feature and fires at higher sync speeds 320+, has bot PC and 3 prone Tether connects, & 3prong aux power source. Full Stroboscopic Function, It DOW not Have Diffuser or Bounce flash pull out card...BUT it rotates, tilts, locks, and for @ the $60 I paid it is much more useful than zany of the, Vivitar(full AF model), Meitz, Hannimax,, and Dedicated fully auto Zeikos.....way back when I was trying to avoid $%00-+ for a top Speedlight. If your reading this than Than I assume you aren't debating "a VS 600,800,900 etc". If you are debating older Speedlights this one, "Per the Strobist himself' is a WINNER, and best value with all features needed. It (on digital) is manual zoom like Yonghou, 560II & under.Read full review
I recently purchased a Nikon N6006 camera. While reading the instructions they mentioned several flash units this being the most recent at that time period. I looked at the SB-22 and SB-23 and decided that this unit would mate well with my camera. The unit is a quality piece of photo equiptment built solid compared to a modern dslr flash units. I purchased this particular unit because of its ttl features and how it should work with the cameras matrix metering system. I haven't processed any film taken with the flash, but i know it has to be an improvement over the units built in flash which i have tried. I've been out of the photography loop for a while but i think with this flash unit in my arsenal i'm well on the way to getting back in the saddle. Because of the wide spread use of digital technology now i find that i am able to purchase quality film equiptment for bargin prices now. This flash has more features than i'll probably ever use. Its manual is comprehensive and can be found on the internet. I do not have any dislikes about this product, got a good solid product at a good price, now all i have to do is put it to use. Compared to the modern digital flash unit that I purchased it is built more solid, has more features and is simple to use.Read full review
Perfect for what I use a strobe for. Manual OFF camera fired via trigger. Some call it "strobist" I dunno.. Pretty good on the hot shoe too when you need it as the head swivels straight up and 180 side to side, left to right. Bounce anywhere... Great flash for cheap if you don't need/use all the iTTL auto.
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If you follow the strobist blog (and if you're serious about photography, even as a hobby, you should), then this is the perfect flash for you. Lots of power (relatively), great battery life, decent recovery time, but best of all, perfect price. You can expect to pay between $65 and $80 for one of these flashes, and it has almost all the functionality of the $160 LumoPro 160 flash (which itself has almost all the functionality of the $440 Nikon SB-800). Don't buy this if you want automatic flash exposures done with an on-camera flash. You're much better off buying the $125 SB-400 for that. These are the perfect candidate for manual, portable, off-camera flashes that will be modified in some way (umbrella, snoot, grid, omni-bounce, etc.). Pro: Portable Good Battery Life Decent power / recharge Cheap! Con: Not as powerful as a strobe, or the SB-800-type flashes (although close) Only steps down to 1/16 power (LumoPro 160 steps down to 1/64th, like the SB-800s) -- you can use neutral density gels to step the flash down further, but it wastes more battery than if the flash could do it natively Zooms to 85mm (LP160 zooms to 105mm) - minor, and if you're a strobist, you'll probably snoot it if you need it zoomed further anyways.Read full review
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