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<blockquote data-quote="Qarik" data-source="post: 1206" data-attributes="member: 223">Blueiron,&nbsp;Like I said..if you are a hobbyist then the Sb600 will serve you well. Everything you mention is exactly true. But it appears to me you have not actually used an sb900 vs sb600 in field? &nbsp;Here are a couple other features:&nbsp;1) the flash head rotates 180 degrees in both directions. This one feature alone is worth the price of admission for a professional event type photographer who does a lot of straight bounce(that's me for example) in real time. It's so simple yet overlooked. 2) regarding off camera flash..have you tried getting your SB600 in slave mode? It involves holding 2 buttons down, scrolling through cryptic menus and symbols, then getting back to the original screen. Even after owning it for over a year I still had to scratch my head a bit to get it into slave mode. The SB900 involves turning the dial. Done. Same thing for master mode.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3) the gels that comes with sb900 automatically set the the WB in your camera body to match the gel. This is handy if you shoot in jpg though I typicaly do not.&nbsp;You make an excellent argument for value between the flashes but my point is that for a working professional, the value argument doesn't work.&nbsp; The D90 is the best value in the Nikon body lineup and it can do 85% of the D3/D700 does at 15% the price. Yet pros do not use the D90 becasue obviously their livelyhood depend to some extent their gear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Qarik, post: 1206, member: 223"] Blueiron, Like I said..if you are a hobbyist then the Sb600 will serve you well. Everything you mention is exactly true. But it appears to me you have not actually used an sb900 vs sb600 in field? Here are a couple other features: 1) the flash head rotates 180 degrees in both directions. This one feature alone is worth the price of admission for a professional event type photographer who does a lot of straight bounce(that's me for example) in real time. It's so simple yet overlooked. 2) regarding off camera flash..have you tried getting your SB600 in slave mode? It involves holding 2 buttons down, scrolling through cryptic menus and symbols, then getting back to the original screen. Even after owning it for over a year I still had to scratch my head a bit to get it into slave mode. The SB900 involves turning the dial. Done. Same thing for master mode. 3) the gels that comes with sb900 automatically set the the WB in your camera body to match the gel. This is handy if you shoot in jpg though I typicaly do not. You make an excellent argument for value between the flashes but my point is that for a working professional, the value argument doesn't work. The D90 is the best value in the Nikon body lineup and it can do 85% of the D3/D700 does at 15% the price. Yet pros do not use the D90 becasue obviously their livelyhood depend to some extent their gear. [/QUOTE]

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