I'm looking into purchasing a flash for my Nikon D80. I'm an amateur so I don't need something extremely fancy. The flash I found has great reviews but the biggest complaint is it doesn't have an "Optical Slave." My question is, what is that? Also, what is a sync plug socket? It had a complaint that that feature was not available either. Thank you.
An optical slave is a trigger for the flash from another flash. If you have a slave flash, it fires when another flash fires simultaneously. If the flash doesn't have an slave option, you can buy a module that the camera fits into to fire it. A sync plug socket is a socket that takes a cord which would hook up to the camera somehow, on the D80 it would be via hotshoe adapter (I have a D80). When the camera takes a picture, it tells the hotshoe to flash and with that adapter, essentially tells the flash to fire as well. Not to worry, its not the end of the world. I have several flash units. There are ways around everything. I have hot shoe adapters, sync cords, a wireless unit, optical slave sensors, pretty much everything. The goal in all of it is to have a small totally portable kit so I can fire 2 or 3 flashes at a time without having to plug anything in. So buy stock in Energizer or another battery company. The most important thing is that the flash meters thru the camera lens (TTL). Not even all Nikon flashes do that. I would recommend if you're going to get a flash unit, get something good and get in once. Definitely get something dedicated to Nikon. If you get something like a Nikon SB-600, you'll have it forever. You can add slaves or whatever else later if you need them.
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