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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 186336" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Multiple flash in a studio is normally all manual flash units, which is 100% compatible with your D3100. In contrast, multiple TTL requires a Commander, which the D3100 does not have, but it is limited to 2 or 3 flash units, no room to grow.</p><p></p><p>To trigger manual flash, there are three ways.</p><p></p><p>1. PC Sync Cord , for which the D3100 would need the Nikon AS-15 hot shoe adapter to provide a PC socket. Some flashes have PC sockets, but the SB-700 would also need an expensive adapter to add one.</p><p></p><p>2. Radio triggers - transmitter on hot shoe, and receivers on one or all remote lights.</p><p>These receivers would fit on the foot of the remote speedlight.</p><p></p><p>3. A very common way in indoor studios is optical slaves, which trigger from the light of any other manual flash (it being 1 or 2 above). This could be your cameras internal flash, in Manual flash mode. The SB-700 already has an excellent slave built in to to this (called SU-4 mode). Inexpensive optical slaves can be added as accessories to other speedlights without it.</p><p></p><p>And of course, your D3100 can use any studio lights too, all manual flash, and triggered by the means above. Studio lights have slaves builtin also (3). But you still have to trigger one of them (typically the near one) with 1 or 2 above.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The class should be able to give you excellent advice. There are several methods, and of course, different people have different preferences.</p><p></p><p>Why do you think you need a "prime lens" for portraits? It really helps to be able to zoom, to get the view you want, say from head/shoulders to waist up, or standing, or groups, etc.</p><p></p><p>The one secret is to always keep the camera back 6 or 8 feet from the subject, to improve the perspective (closer can enlarge noses, and the ladies don't like that). Then you zoom in to get the view you want. The 105mm lens was considered a classic for 35mm film, simply because head/shoulders required it stand back at about this distance. But that is just head/shoulders, and also now, for the DX camera (D3100), this number becomes 70 mm (equivalent view at same distance). Maybe 55-60 mm for waist up, and even less for full length or groups. Just always stand back at 6 or 8 feet (not less if avoidable). But you will need to zoom. In the studio, you don't pick up the tripod and move twice as far back. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>See <a href="http://www.scantips.com/lights/setup/" target="_blank">45 degree Portrait Lighting Setup</a></p><p></p><p>Nothing there prohibits the D3100. It's just a camera. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 186336, member: 12496"] Multiple flash in a studio is normally all manual flash units, which is 100% compatible with your D3100. In contrast, multiple TTL requires a Commander, which the D3100 does not have, but it is limited to 2 or 3 flash units, no room to grow. To trigger manual flash, there are three ways. 1. PC Sync Cord , for which the D3100 would need the Nikon AS-15 hot shoe adapter to provide a PC socket. Some flashes have PC sockets, but the SB-700 would also need an expensive adapter to add one. 2. Radio triggers - transmitter on hot shoe, and receivers on one or all remote lights. These receivers would fit on the foot of the remote speedlight. 3. A very common way in indoor studios is optical slaves, which trigger from the light of any other manual flash (it being 1 or 2 above). This could be your cameras internal flash, in Manual flash mode. The SB-700 already has an excellent slave built in to to this (called SU-4 mode). Inexpensive optical slaves can be added as accessories to other speedlights without it. And of course, your D3100 can use any studio lights too, all manual flash, and triggered by the means above. Studio lights have slaves builtin also (3). But you still have to trigger one of them (typically the near one) with 1 or 2 above. The class should be able to give you excellent advice. There are several methods, and of course, different people have different preferences. Why do you think you need a "prime lens" for portraits? It really helps to be able to zoom, to get the view you want, say from head/shoulders to waist up, or standing, or groups, etc. The one secret is to always keep the camera back 6 or 8 feet from the subject, to improve the perspective (closer can enlarge noses, and the ladies don't like that). Then you zoom in to get the view you want. The 105mm lens was considered a classic for 35mm film, simply because head/shoulders required it stand back at about this distance. But that is just head/shoulders, and also now, for the DX camera (D3100), this number becomes 70 mm (equivalent view at same distance). Maybe 55-60 mm for waist up, and even less for full length or groups. Just always stand back at 6 or 8 feet (not less if avoidable). But you will need to zoom. In the studio, you don't pick up the tripod and move twice as far back. :) See [URL="http://www.scantips.com/lights/setup/"]45 degree Portrait Lighting Setup[/URL] Nothing there prohibits the D3100. It's just a camera. :) [/QUOTE]
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