I am looking to buy a Nikon D90 or a D5000 and I haven’t been able to find out if either of them are able to hook up to a strobe system. Anybody have any ideas?
4 Comments to “Nikon D90 and Nikon D5000 — Can they hook up to a strobe system?”
Sure they can. It may take a $15 Nikon AS-15 PC sync adapter to make it happen. Not sure if either one has a PC socket.
Radio slaves will work just fine on either.
If you turn off all that i-TTL stuff, you could even use the pop-up flash to fire the strobes via optical slave, which most have built it.
There isn’t an SLR out there that can’t work with studio lights. The AS-15 will work in any hot shoe, not just Nikon (I used one with a Canon 300D) if you need a PC socket. Well, OK, it won’t work on a Minolta/Sony shoe… but that’s a similar adapter from Ebay for even less. I paid $10 including shipping for mine.
Sakura on February 23, 2008
Absolutely!
Caoedhen on February 25, 2008
Sure they can. It may take a $15 Nikon AS-15 PC sync adapter to make it happen. Not sure if either one has a PC socket.
Radio slaves will work just fine on either.
If you turn off all that i-TTL stuff, you could even use the pop-up flash to fire the strobes via optical slave, which most have built it.
There isn’t an SLR out there that can’t work with studio lights. The AS-15 will work in any hot shoe, not just Nikon (I used one with a Canon 300D) if you need a PC socket. Well, OK, it won’t work on a Minolta/Sony shoe… but that’s a similar adapter from Ebay for even less. I paid $10 including shipping for mine.
shdwsclan on February 27, 2008
Yeah, but you wont have very good results…
Have you ever wondered why Nikon has so many cameras…
Its precision and quality.
The D90 and D5000 are basically toys to net nikon money. The flash sync speed has not been fine tuned on those cameras.
A strobe system will work, just not very well as it would, for example, on a D300, D700, D3 or D3x…
Blue on February 28, 2008
Yes,they can