Flash Difficulty

[camam11]

I'm in need of some advise. I own a Nikon D5000 and an SB600 Nikon Flash but am lost to what kind of transmitter/reciever I should use to make these to darn things work together. I bought a Yongnuo RF 602, I know it's cheap but have heard so many good things about it for the money. I am unable to make these two work together can someone please lend me a hand. Thank You

[tdyannd]

I have both of those, and I have no issue using them together...unless I am missing something?

[camam11]

Could you please guide me through it.. My husband found that on the instructions leaflet it states in tiny letters Not compatible with SB600. I'm very new to using this flash

[WayneF]

Originally Posted by camam11

Could you please guide me through it.. My husband found that on the instructions leaflet it states in tiny letters Not compatible with SB600. I'm very new to using this flash

I don't have one, but there is much info available here:

Yongnuo RF 602 sb-600 - Google Search

All the links say it is not "incompatible" with SB-600, but it cannot wake the SB-600 up if it times out into standby. You can disable standby in the menu, and I think this is not unique to the SB-600. It works well enough on the SB-600 for lots of people.

Which doesn't help your question, but your initial "doesnt work" problem is probably not standby however.

[tdyannd]

I don't have that Y thing, and so I can't help you there...but, my SB600 sits on top of my Nikon D5000 and I use it without problems. I don't really understand what you're problem is?

[deluco]

As Wayne mentions, your problem is probably the standby features that many (all?) of the SB's have. Standby helps conserve power, and when the strobe is in the hot shoe, it wakes up when you press the shutter button and before the shutter fires. You don't need or want this feature on when you use the strobes off-camera. You have to disable this feature, otherwise the flash will not fire when it goes into stanby. It will fire subsequent times if you fire repeatedly before it goes back into standby.

[WayneF]

Originally Posted by deluco

As Wayne mentions, your problem is probably the standby features that many (all?) of the SB's have. Standby helps conserve power, and when the strobe is in the hot shoe, it wakes up when you press the shutter button and before the shutter fires. You don't need or want this feature on when you use the strobes off-camera. You have to disable this feature, otherwise the flash will not fire when it goes into stanby. It will fire subsequent times if you fire repeatedly before it goes back into standby.

Right. But standby does take awhile to occur, the first tries after power on ought to work. My guess is Caman's original problem must be something like wrong flash mode.

To use the radio trigger, the SB-600 must be in its Manual mode, the mode called M on the LCD, and the mode Manual on page 34 of the manual.

For example, a radio trigger cannot work in the other flash modes, like REMOTE. REMOTE is only for the Commander (and standby is even disabled in REMOTE mode).

Caman, if still problems, then please tell us more. What setup are you using? Flash mode Manual? (the one called M?) Transmitter on the hot shoe? Receiver on the flash foot? Shutter speed not faster than 1/200 second? Should work. Everyone always assumes they did everything right, but if it does not work, then tell us about it (we cannot see it).

[steve6101]

this might not be relevant had similar problem with my sigma flash I had to set flash as slave for the trigger to fire the flash

[jerryph]

- disable stand-by, how to do this is in the manual of the flash.
- you must use a hot shoe adapter to connect the flash and receiver, as the SB-600 has no sync port
- you need to use ONLY manual power settings on the SB-600, how to do this is in the manual of the flash.

www.strobist.com ... refer to lighting 101 and lighting 102.

[jerryph]

Originally Posted by steve6101

this might not be relevant had similar problem with my sigma flash I had to set flash as slave for the trigger to fire the flash

Not relevant. The SB-600 has no slave mode.