castrol
TPF Noob!
Quickly, a little back story...
I was doing some "creative flash" practicing and I set my flash somewhere
I probably shouldn't have. After a small breeze blew through the backyard
about 3 seconds after I turned around, I heard a 'crash'. Please don't be my
speedlight. It was.
It no longer worked and I could physically hear the broken pieces inside
rattling around. Mr. Perko gave me some insight on finding a replacement
strobe for it, and I decided to give it a go.
Well today I finally decided to dive into the ripped apart SB-600. I ordered a new
strobe from Nikon Tech USA last week. $8.00 plus $4.00 shipping.
I was a little intimidated at first. I had bro in law bring his soldering iron over to
the house and we got started this morning. There was a little more damage
internally than I previously anticipated, but it was nothing that a little super glue
couldn't fix. I took photos of the process that I can post up just in case this
happens to anyone else in the future.
I am a happy man tonight. Very happy.
It actually works better than it did before. Before, when I would zoom the flash,
it would zoom all the way to 70mm and the next step would be a 'click click click'
then it would zoom all the way back out and show two [--] in the zoom LCD.
I wouldn't be able to zoom again until I turned it off and back on again. I
always thought that was weird. I was disappointed in the way this worked. Turns
out it never worked properly from the day I bought it. How funny is that?
I was doing some "creative flash" practicing and I set my flash somewhere
I probably shouldn't have. After a small breeze blew through the backyard
about 3 seconds after I turned around, I heard a 'crash'. Please don't be my
speedlight. It was.
It no longer worked and I could physically hear the broken pieces inside
rattling around. Mr. Perko gave me some insight on finding a replacement
strobe for it, and I decided to give it a go.
Well today I finally decided to dive into the ripped apart SB-600. I ordered a new
strobe from Nikon Tech USA last week. $8.00 plus $4.00 shipping.
I was a little intimidated at first. I had bro in law bring his soldering iron over to
the house and we got started this morning. There was a little more damage
internally than I previously anticipated, but it was nothing that a little super glue
couldn't fix. I took photos of the process that I can post up just in case this
happens to anyone else in the future.
I am a happy man tonight. Very happy.
It actually works better than it did before. Before, when I would zoom the flash,
it would zoom all the way to 70mm and the next step would be a 'click click click'
then it would zoom all the way back out and show two [--] in the zoom LCD.
I wouldn't be able to zoom again until I turned it off and back on again. I
always thought that was weird. I was disappointed in the way this worked. Turns
out it never worked properly from the day I bought it. How funny is that?
