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With the SB-900 Speedlight<\/a><\/strong> (B&H), Nikon’s\u00a0flagship flashgun, it is clear that\u00a0they\u00a0did their homework.\u00a0\u00a0The SB-800 was a great flashgun, but there were certain things about it that were very frustrating, but the\u00a0Nikon\u00a0SB-900<\/strong> gets all of this right.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Right there in this image is the main reason to get the SB-900 … it now\u00a0rotates 180′ to the right, instead of stopping short at the 90′ mark like the SB-800. This is a huge benefit in bouncing flash with specific effect in mind.<\/p>\n That the\u00a0SB-800 stopped short at the 90′ mark when you rotated the flash-head to the right, was a huge downside for me in comparing the SB-800 to the Canon 580EX.<\/p>\n But there are more reasons to love the SB-900 …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For anyone familiar with the slooooow method of getting to the Nikon’s CLS system of the SB-800 by pressing buttons for several seconds to call up various menus to get into the\u00a0Master \/ Remote settings, will love the ease with which the\u00a0Wireless TTL control menu\u00a0can now be accessed.<\/p>\n For me,\u00a0these differences are profound enough to make the SB-900 an automatic upgrade over the SB-800. There are other smaller touches<\/strong> as well: There is very little to quibble about with the Nikon SB-900<\/a> (B&H), and I would definitely recommend it as the best flashgun out there.<\/p>\n As an aside, we can look at the Canon 580EX II as to how a designer can completely miss the mark in updating\u00a0a piece of equipment: review: Nikon SB-900 speedlight With the SB-900 Speedlight (B&H), Nikon’s\u00a0flagship flashgun, it is clear that\u00a0they\u00a0did their homework.\u00a0\u00a0The SB-800 was a great flashgun, but there were certain things about it that were very frustrating, but the\u00a0Nikon\u00a0SB-900 gets all of this right. A huge improvement is that the SB-900 rotates 180′ to either side! Right there Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,833,703,15,16,27],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-equipment-review","8":"category-equipment-reviews-lighting-gear","9":"category-equipment-reviews-nikon","10":"category-flash-photography","11":"category-gear","12":"category-nikon","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33065,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/33065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nThe build quality<\/strong> of the SB-900 also appears to be a step up from the SB-800.\u00a0 Not only is the SB-900 much larger than the SB-800, it also feels more solid.\u00a0 While some may argue that the SB-900 is too bulky, the extra size of the SB-900\u00a0may have been a side-effect of several improvements by the SB-900, such as:
\n– \u00a0building the flash-head to rotate like it does,
\n– and the fact that the SB-900 offers a little more power than the SB-800,
\n– the larger LCD display.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n–\u00a0 The filter set now comes with a clip-on holder.
\n–\u00a0 There is now a thermal cut-off<\/strong><\/a> for the flash to stop it from over-heating. Fortunately this can be disabled.\u00a0 (Quite often I need to get the shots, without much\u00a0concern for my flashgun.)\u00a0 I do have a quibble with the way it is implemented though<\/a>.
\n–\u00a0 You can set the illumination pattern.\u00a0 ie, how much light fall-off there are to the edges of the image taken with the SB-900.\u00a0 But this is a trivial point for anyone who favours bounce flash over direct flash.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n– The 580EX II made the controls to access Master \/ Slave far more clumsy over the original 580EX.
\n– Even in offering an Auto Mode now on the 580EX II, Canon fudged it by not having the Auto mode immediately accessible. Instead you need to go in to the menu to change it … and then disable TTL.\u00a0 Seriously!?
\n– The menu of the 580EX II (and the original) is so obscure you need to carry the manual with you, or some kind of note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"