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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 191518" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>Because the SB-700 is still in production, but the SB-600 and SB-800 are no longer available, except as used. I have two SB-800, which is still the best one ever made IMO, but it is no longer in production, so hard to recommend it. But either of those two would still be excellent, just not in stores now.</p><p></p><p>SB-600 and SB-800 have one special feature of backwards compatibility, their automation can work on film cameras (TTL) and on earliest Nikon digital cameras (D-TTL) or on current digitals (iTTL) ... can do whatever any old Nikon camera can do.</p><p>Newer models (SB-700) only work with with current iTTL cameras, like your D3.</p><p></p><p>The SB-700 has some features the SB-600 does not (has commander and optical slave and GN mode). Only downside is that the SB-700 is slightly less power than some, but it is greatly more flash than the SB-400. SB-700 can do about anything you would ever want. The SB-910 is bigger, but really, its main added feature is ability to use an external power supply (more battery, faster recycle), which is popular with event photographers taking hundreds of pictures, but not normally needed by most of us, and IMO, its price is too high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 191518, member: 12496"] Because the SB-700 is still in production, but the SB-600 and SB-800 are no longer available, except as used. I have two SB-800, which is still the best one ever made IMO, but it is no longer in production, so hard to recommend it. But either of those two would still be excellent, just not in stores now. SB-600 and SB-800 have one special feature of backwards compatibility, their automation can work on film cameras (TTL) and on earliest Nikon digital cameras (D-TTL) or on current digitals (iTTL) ... can do whatever any old Nikon camera can do. Newer models (SB-700) only work with with current iTTL cameras, like your D3. The SB-700 has some features the SB-600 does not (has commander and optical slave and GN mode). Only downside is that the SB-700 is slightly less power than some, but it is greatly more flash than the SB-400. SB-700 can do about anything you would ever want. The SB-910 is bigger, but really, its main added feature is ability to use an external power supply (more battery, faster recycle), which is popular with event photographers taking hundreds of pictures, but not normally needed by most of us, and IMO, its price is too high. [/QUOTE]
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