Comments on: Nikon SB-600 speedlight flash may be discontinued soon

By: AlanK

AlanK — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:02:50 +0000

Am in the same boat myself as about to buy an SB600 but everywhere onine seems to be sold out. Can still pick it up locally for about £40 more but now wondering if I should hang on.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:45:00 +0000

Dan, I called around to come local camera shops and to my surprise, one had a slightly used one for only $99! I rushed over there and that thing was in pretty much brand new condition, no problems whatsoever. It was definitely a steal. I used it a bit last night and I was very impressed. Thanks for the heads up guys

Neil

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:31:05 +0000

I purchased three in the last month and half – 1 at a time as I could afford them from Amazon. I got my last one about 2-3 weeks ago.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:24:01 +0000

The D3s is why I just bought 3 SB 600′s to go with my SB 800 – I figure I can try shooting some railroad trains at night without buying mono-lights. I haven’t taken any flash train photos yet, but my back yard experiments with the SB 800, SB 600 combo at 6400 iso have been very promising!

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:43:37 +0000

I decided it was time to upgrade from my sb-24 and to my surprise literally everywhere is sold out of the sb-600. And unfortunately it’s been like that for months. If Nikon were replacing the sb-600 and are phasing it out, where are the rumors about their new flash? Every online retailer I would buy from is sold out so I might run around locally and see if I can nab one, should I wait? I dunno, I’ve heard that the sb-600 is perfectly good

By: Kaouthia

Kaouthia — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:35:18 +0000

I’ve been using CLS a while too, and it’s definitely a lot quicker on the SB-900s.

By: Kaouthia

Kaouthia — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:34:26 +0000

The SB-900 is 300% of the price of the SB-600 where you are?

Here in the UK, the the SB-900 only costs about 40% more than the SB-600. It was worth getting the superior model for me for that price difference.

Used the SB-900 here costs about the same as a new SB-600.

By: LGO

LGO — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:16:02 +0000

NR Admin, if Nikon replaces the SB-600 with the SB-700, if there any indication as to when this will be announced … and whether there will be some new lenses and new camera body to go with that?

By: lew

lew — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:30:17 +0000

OK, but the SB800 as a bit more angle.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:22:15 +0000

Yea, but they change over time, especially chips.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:54:55 +0000

If they are pulling the SB-600, I would hope to see it replaced with an similar entry-level flash. The SB-900 is a lot of product for a consumer like me, and I can’t imagine Nikon would leave a void in their line up like that.. I don’t mind having slave only functionality if it means I can afford the hardware.

By: Discontinued

Discontinued — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:15:21 +0000

You should read.
Neither you nor REN KOCKWELL did pretend to be KEN ROCKWELL
who gets knocked well by REN as well as by KON RECKWELL and some others … .

And BTW,
here is my favorite range of “Nikon” (or Canon)-Flashlights:

mecablitz 58 AF-1 digital
mecablitz 48 AF-1 digital
mecablitz 36 AF-4 digital

Made in Germany, USB for software up-dates or -grades and at least in Germany significantly cheaper too (though fore sure not cheaply made).

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:49:08 +0000

Nah…you’re still missing the point. The wonderful quality high ISO’s just mean you can use faster shutter speeds than you used to be able to and can enlarge higher ISO shots more with less degradation than you could in the past. Flash will always be necessary for conditions of ugly light.

Ugly light ≠ Low light. Like I said, you can have bright ugly light. Sometimes you have to shade your subject and light with strobe because of poor light QUALITY, not QUANTITY.

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:42:59 +0000

I’ve used the 900. Sure is an improvement. But not worth a 300% price increase. If I were starting from scratch I’d think about the 900′s. But only think about it. The 600′s are still a great deal. Bought one for $269 and then got smart. Second two were about $130 a piece used.

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:39:54 +0000

I could definitely set up a dozen sb-600′s as much as they need to be set up in a couple minutes. The only thing to screw around with is the A/B/C grouping. Everything else is controlled from the sb800/sb900/camera body.

Actual lighting decisions are a whole other matter…

I guess I’ve been using my CLS setup for a few years now, so it doesn’t really bother me.

By: zzddrr

zzddrr — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:21:57 +0000

My point I was trying to make is that when you have a D3s quality sensor you may use less frequently the flash. Such can result in lower sales of certain flash.

Also, maybe Nikon is testing LED based sensors because if you have video in your camera then you would need something else….

By: Not Ken Rockwell

Not Ken Rockwell — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:48:47 +0000

If you are really Ken Rockwell, you should really have a picture of yourself next to your post! Otherwise, any joe photog could put your name in the name field just to be taken seriously! C’mon, you must have at least one pic of yourself!!!

BTW… Shouldn’t you be using a flash tray of magnesium to go with you your film camera? Just kidding; Velvia rocks!

Graham

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:35:18 +0000

I was told by a Henry’s store sales clerk in Ottawa, Ontario that the new flash was to be like the SB600 but with the new buttons/interface of the SB900. He said it would be called the SB700. I sent an email to the NR admin but that was some time ago.

Let’s see if my info was worthy of being posted!

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:57:46 +0000

we had similar poll already: http://nikonrumors.com/polls

By: Kaouthia

Kaouthia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:13:20 +0000

The SB-600 head does indeed rotate. 90 degrees clockwise, 180 degrees anti clockwise.