I’ve seen great reviews about Nikon SB800/SB600 speedlight. Finally bought SB600 – at about half the price of SB800, it is a great place for beginners to experience Nikon’s so-called “creative lighting system”. And what a great component to have!
I was only expecting a big external flashlight that can bounce lighting off the ceiling to create better portrait shots. So you can imagine the jaw-dropping when I see what the SB600 can do. It not only synchronizes with the D70 with laser precision at all angles vertically as well horizonal swivels, it zooms its own lens quietly in step with the focus of the camera, and it can adjust the amount of flash exposure needed – and these are just the basic operations. In more advanced mode, two or more flash units can be synchronized wirelessly to create more lighting situations.
The bottom line is, the SB600 costs only less than $200, shooting greatly improved indoor pictures is really priceless.
Archive for February, 2006
SB600 Speedlight
Saturday, February 18th, 2006PC Upgrade
Saturday, February 4th, 2006Just upgraded a 4+ year-old PC:
- Mother Board($120): MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum NVidia Ultra with 939 Socket (AMD)
- CPU($164): AMD Athlon 64 3200+
- Memory($99): Corsair MX 512MBx2
- Video Card($75): nVidia GeForce 6200 w/ 256MB PCI Express
The new mobo is very nice with 4 SATA ports, USB 2.0 and Firewire support, dual gigabit network on board. It even has SATA RAID support and overclocking utility functions.
While you can get a decent desktop PC today around a few hundred dollars, the fun and total control of what components you put in and get used is priceless. I just wish sometime we can buy our cars that way.