It is time to upgrade to digital (I guess), film is starting to cost too much and the quality of digital is just great now. My film system is all Nikon, so I decided to buy the D70 (I would consider the new Fuji S3 but they don't support standard TTL anymore).
Well, my big question is about the flash. I really need the system to work reliably on TTL. I mostly take fish pictures, and I don't want to hassle with manual flash exposures while that new species that I need to photograph swims away. I am trying to decide between the Subal and Nexus housings for the D70 (and more specifically between the Subal housing for the Nikon SB800 or the Inon D180 with the optical connection). Does anybody here uses Inon with optical connection? Does it work in dTTL with the D70? I would prefer the Inon system and a Nexus housing because it would be a cheaper combination (the alternative would be an SB800 and a Subal housing for it, what would cost over $1,000 versus about $600 for the Inon).
Thanks for any advice.
If you want TTL, I would recommend going with an S2 over the D70. Or go with an Ikelite Housing for the D70, since they are the only ones that have announced they are going to work on TTL for the D70.
The Inon would be a bad choice for the D70. It doesn't actually do TTL, and I'm not even sure if you can get the optical connector to work at all with the D70, although I have seen a screen shot of a hot shoe, to optical connector supposedly available in Japan.
I'm sure others can explain this stuff much better than I can.
Thanks for the info! Where did you get the Ikelite info on TTL? Is it in their webpage? I can't find it. If that's the case I will certainly think about Ikelite again (I've had housings for the N90 and F100, but was very disappointed with the F100 housing because the flash connector was on the bottom and always broke).
It's a rumor.
Cheers
James
That's true.....but it's from Ike himself........timing is the unknown
Karl
I think Ike needs to finish eTTL first before we start saying iTTL will be out "real soon now." One thing at a time, ya know?
Cheers
James
Are you sure it is a rumor? They have a system that works for Olympus, can't they do something similar for the Nikons?
The Nikon d-TTL system fires 18 preflashes as compared to the Olympus which I believe fires just one. I'm not sure about iTTL, but I think it also fires a lot of preflashes.
So it's not an easy problem to crack. I'm sure Ike would give us an update and a schedule if he had something to report.
