Nikon SB-800 issues

I just purchased the SB800 as a flash accessory for my new D70 and have a
couple of issues with it.

- The unit comes with a "quick recycling battery pack" which is an extra
unit which clips on after you remove the battery compartment door.P 64 of
the manual describes removing the existing battery chamber lid by somehow
sliding it back and lifting it. I have tried everything short of wrenching
the damn thing off and can't seem to remove it as described or otherwise.
Anybody familiar with this? My dealer couldn't help at all.

-p 67 of the manual indicates the unit has a number of custom functions
including a 'unit of measure' m/ft and adjusting the 'standby feature (how
long it takes for the flash to go into standby mode). These would be great
to adjust as the flash is set in meters and I would prefer feet and also the
standby mode pops on in 6 secs which is a little too soon. When i press the
SEL button as described there seems no setting available for adjusting
these and I'm wondering if I am doing something wrong. I can't believe this
wouldn't be available for the D70 - although the high shutter sync (over
1/500) is not.
Both units were purchase in Canada.

Cliff

 

Cliff

Pls see below.
Howard

I had the same problem in the beginning too, I took it back to the shop and
the
shop assistant took two seconds to pull it out, it's something like 30 or 45
degree
angle, and just pull, it's kind of soft plastic, so it's alright, that's
what I did on mine,
don't blame me if you break yours!!! I guess it's because we spent so much
money
on it, and we are just soooo careful!

Did you press it long enough? I think it's about 2 or 3 seconds. I don't
have
it attached to my D100.

 

Thanks Howard.
I'll gingerly try prying/sliding that cover off - or at least have the
dealer try it. Nikon is very obscure on this procedure to say the least!
Regarding the SEL settings - I do get the 4 box screen up on the back of the
flash but they are for changing the ISO and master/slave setting and the
other 2 boxes are simply blank. I thought maybe this indicates the custom
fgeatures regarding metric/imperial and standyby are not available on the
D70. It took me quite a bit of inquiring to realize the high speed sync
(over 1/500 in NOT available on the D70.
Cliff

 

removing the battery door to aloow the installation of the 5th battery
holder is very unstaisfying... it does feel as if you are going to break
the door while trying to remove it but that is what i experiance and what my
dealer warned... but it did not break. i suspect that your experiance will
be tha same.

to change mt/ft, power on the unit, hold select for about three seconds
(until different menu appears), use up/down/left/right arrows to locate and
highlight the 'm/ft' box and once highlighted press the select button again,
then use the up/down arrow to change between 'm' and 'ft' and press select
once the desired setting is highlighted, press the on/off button once to
return to the standard status display menu.

 

if you got as far as the four box display then all you need to do is use the
up/don arrows to advance to the next screen full of items that are
available... see other post.

 

YAHOO!! I seem to have got it up and running correctly. Thank you all and
especially you Christopher! I'll now gingerly try to remove the battery
compartment )
Cliff

 

Browsing the nikonians forum, I've bumped into this website, maybe it
can be of any help

http://web.295.ca/mike_graham/sb800_battery_cover.htm

Good luck,

Yves

 

Thanks very much for finding this! I'll try it.
I cannot believe that a billion dollar corporation like Nikon would send out
instructions on one of their primo products in such a haphazard manner.
Don't they even edit their manuals?