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I just tried this the other night with an SB-800, two SB-600s, and a Panasonic G1.Does anybody know if I can use multiple SB800 or SB900 in A mode on a non-Nikon Camera?
The SB800 works finein A-mode on my M8 and my Sinar Hy6 - would it also work to remotely control a second or third Nikon flash?
No, but I'll try that next.Have you tried using Nikon's SU-4?
As far as I heard unofficially from Nikon SU4 mode should work. I havent tried yet.Have you tried using Nikon's SU-4?
Doesn't work on a Sony A900 either. I tried it.I just tried this the other night with an SB-800, two SB-600s, and a Panasonic G1.
The short answer is "no". :-(
I put the SB-800 on the G1, set it to Commander mode, and then used the Commander-mode settings to put all three units in A mode.
When I pressed the shutter release on the G1, the SB-800 didn't even fire.
I then tried connecting the SB-800's PC outlet to a PocketWizard and firing it via another PocketWizard on the G1. This time the SB-800 would fire, but the other units would not.
Mind you, this was just one try on one camera which in itself is highly electronified (for example, the G1 knows when you've got a flash unit in the shoe and won't set its shutter speed to higher than its sync speed -- even if the flash unit is non-dedicated.)
But my take is that using an SB-800 in Commander mode to control other units only works on a Nikon CLS-compatible camera, even if you're using Commander mode to set the flash units to A mode rather than TTL.
I would guess that you could use as many individual SB-800s or -900s set to A mode if you triggered them with radio or optical slave units. But then each units would only control its own output, just like using non-dedicated "sensor-eye" flash units.