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The main problem people run into with the SB600 and D7000 pop-up flash is that they go into the D7000 menu and set the pop-up to Commander, get the settings configured, and forget to press the “OK” button at the end thereby canceling all of the changes.

Set the SB600 as Group A, channel 3, and then set the pop-up flash as Commander (menu e3) on channel 3, with Group A set for “TTL.” Set the Built-In flash to Mode “–” if you don’t want it to show up in the image as well.

Make sure the sensor on the flash is pointed in a useful direction. It’s the circular “window” on the side of the flash next to the battery compartment. Useful range is 30-50 feet depending on lighting conditions (sunlight directly on the sensor window is a range-killer.)

In many cases, aiming the sensor at the subject will get you more than enough bounced signal for the SB600 to fire under the D7000’s control.

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I’ve used Rainsleeves. I’ve also used garbage bags with a hole in one corner and a rubber band to hold that hole around the lens.

The latter is cheaper and easier to deal with.

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A former client bought me a Zenfolio account for an event they were holding. I’ve just never gotten rid of it since.

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Flickr’s latest “upgrades” have rendered the interface absolutely unusable for me. I terminate auto renew on my Flickr Pro account a couple of hours ago, and will most likely slurp all of my photos over to Zenfolio.

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I don’t think that’s going to be a problem, really. By the time she’s ten, she’ll have a pretty solid grounding in everything I know about self-defense and dirty fighting – minus firearms and edged weapons.

By the time she’s fourteen, she should be a pretty good shot herself. 😉

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Chillin’… like a boss.

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SWEET!

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That’d be why I offered to let you sit in the back of the car. It’s a good-sized Faraday cage. 😉

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Thanks! You back in town yet, or what? I do have the Forester… which has a fold-down seat in the back, and it wouldn’t be hard at all to park you somewhere with a storm in front of you.

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Whoops! One more!

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Good show last night.

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A slightly different shot at the same location of that last one…

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I’m with Choc-Ful-A – but I’d add that a polarizer is always a nice thing to have in the kit, since you can use it to knock down reflections like the legs.

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Here’s the view from Sunset Point Rest Area on my northbound I-17 leg, looking east:

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I went the other way – up I17, across to Strawberry/Pine, down through Payson to Phoenix.

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