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Originally Posted by glowrock
Why would I be stuck with on-camera only, bulliver? Are you referring to having slave flash capability as well?
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What I mean, is that AFRAIK you cannot trigger an off-brand speedlight off-camera, and you certainly can't dial in the flash settings on your camera using CLS, therefore, your speedlight is little more than a more powerful built in. Once you start getting into flash you will soon realize that it is _very_ difficult to get natural looking photos with a speedlight sitting on the hotshoe firing directly at your subject at the same angle as the camera. Sure you can tilt the head and bounce, or get a tupperware diffuser, but it will never be close to the results you will get with that flash at arms length, at a 45 degree angle to your subject.
Perhaps, as you mention, some off-brands will fire in slave mode, but that will still require you to trigger it using the pop-up, and there's that horrible, deer-caught-in-a-headlight direct frontal flash again...
You can purchase wireless triggers separately, but if you are going to do that, might as well just get the Nikon.
The SB-600 has been superseded by the SB-700, so you should be able to find it around cheap. Definitely under $300.