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Old 27th July 2009 | 08:53
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Bushfiva
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From: is everything
www.nikonusa.com/pdf/manuals/Speedlights/SB-800.pdf
www.nikonusa.com/pdf/SB800_techniques.pdf

Lots of other stuff there.

If you leave the thing in i-TTL and use some bounce flash, you'll get automagically great photos most of the time. You can also mess around with a business card and/or cheap diffuser to control the light to your liking. Plenty of cheap/free ways to get the effect you need. The business card goes down the slot at the top of the flash lens, for example.

I don't have the D50 so I'm guessing a little, but I think you'll get i-TTL balanced fill flash with the SB-800 and CPU lenses as long as you use matrix and center-weighted metering, otherwise standard i-TTL with non-CPU lenses and in other metering modes.
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