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THE DIGITAL SOAPBOX OF ANDY CLEAVENGER

NIKON SB-28

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The SB-28 *WAS* Nikon’s flagship flash back in the mid 90’s. The advent of digital photography effectively made it obsolete over night.

Almost any pro photographer that used to shoot film with a Nikon has (or had, and wisely sold before the value tanked) a handful of SB-28’s laying around somewhere. Most of those pros now use them as paperweights. But, just because TTL function is lost doesn’t mean that a flash is useless. I still use my SB-28’s every now and then off camera in manual mode.

The only thing I don’t like about using them in this capacity is that they fall asleep after about 30 seconds and the only way to wake them up is to fire off a pre flash for the sole purpose of waking them up. If you forget to do this, your first exposure will be under exposed. For this reason I tend to reach for my SB-800’s first, even for manual off camera use. However, I do still use these SB-28’s.

If you can live with its limitations, an SB-28 is a good economical choice anyone needing a flash for their film body or needing a low cost, portable, off camera flash.