Nikon’s second large announcement currently (the alternative is a prohibited new D7000) is a SB700 speedlight, the not as big chronicle of the good SB900 as well as an overpriced replacement for a SB600 (although the SB600 is still accessible.

Nikon makes some of the best flashes around: even some Canon shooters cite them to Canon’s own if they devise to make use of them manually, though they probably won’t be shopping this one, as it has one large feature blank: the sync-jack. Over at the Strobist blog, flash-nerd David Hobby has been crawling by the specs and finds that there is no approach to trigger a peep off-camera with the standard PC-cord. You’ll possibly need to make use of the concordant Nikon camera to trigger it remotely, buy an expensive exclusive wire or make use of the “SU-4″ mode, which turns a flash into a dumb worker section.

Apart from this peculiar pierce, a SB700 looks good. If you’re familiar with a SB900’s screen-and-control-dial interface, you’ll be at home here. In actuality, in a little ways the new peep looks improved than the large hermit, with dedicated switches for changing modes as well as for enlightenment patterns (like the SB900, you can choose between standard, center-weighted as well as “even”).

There’s additionally the equipped with a motor zoom, AF-illuminator as well as a capability to act as the commander in chief for alternative, off-camera flashes (useful if you ponied up a money for a top-end D3 that doesn’t have the built-in peep to do this). And lastly (well, lastly for this post: Nikon flashes have a undoubted difficulty of options if you dig in) there speedlight comes with a couple of tough tone filters, replacing a groundless ones which come with a SB900. The price for this new peep is $330, compared to around $220 for a SB600 as well as around $460 for the SB900.

SB-700 product page [Nikon]

Nikon SB-700 Speedlight Misses it By This Much [Strobist]