The Nikon SB-28 Speedlight can be used as a fill flash or to light up an entire room.
The Nikon SB-28 Speedlight is a full-sized flash designed for a 35mm film SLR camera.The flash was released in 1998 and could fire as often as once every four seconds with fully charged batteries. It fastens with a hotshoe mount, and is able to communicate with the camera through electrodes in the mount.
Basic Features
Powered by four AA batteries, the SB-28 offers users three modes: automatic, manual and TTL, or Through The Lens metering, for Nikon camera bodies. TTL allows the flash to anticipate and adjust for a picture's lighting needs. The flash is smaller than its predecessors, measuring 2.7 by 5 by 3.6 inches and weighing 11.8 ounces without batteries. Features include an auto-focus illuminator light designed to help the camera focus in low-light situations, and glowing controls to help the user work in low-light environments as well. Additionally, it has a built-in diffuser card to help in bouncing light toward a subject, and offers red-eye reduction. The flash is designed to work with lenses between 24 and 85mm. In wide-flash mode, it can service 18 or 20mm lenses as well.
Bouncing Light
Bouncing a flash off a ceiling, wall or diffuser card creates a softer light for subjects. With the SB-28, Nikon brought a better ability to move the direction of the flash -- eliminating the need to blind subjects or create significant shadows in pictures. The flash can be moved in any direction using the lock release button.
High-Performance Features
The SB-28 was designed as a high-performance flash that waits until the end of the exposure to fire. This offers better and more natural lighting, especially with moving subjects. Its 3-D light sensor allows the flash to calculate needed light based on the subject as well as the background, something that is useful when the background is bright. Nikon markets the flash as able to sync with shutter speeds of up to 1/4,000 of a second, according to the company's website. The flash is ready to fire again in seconds. In testing, it recycled in four seconds when using NiCd AA batteries and six-and-a-half seconds when using conventional AA batteries. NiCd batteries offer the least number of flashes per charge, with less than 100. Lithium batteries, by comparison, are good for up to 200 flashes per charge.
Limitations
The flash is compatible with digital SLR cameras, but it will only function in manual or automatic modes.
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