Nikon SB-910 are now in stock, with a special introductory price of just $635 incl GST.
Pickup available from our Brisbane store, or $19 courier Australia wide.
Give us a call on 07 3333 2900 or email us on [email protected] if you would like to order.
I don't mind grey market, but I do mind DWI
As posted in other articles regarding DWI, it seems that they are pretty good with their camera section. Just avoid their phones/tablets. I haven't heard many tales of problems regarding cameras and accessories?
ive been reading about their mobile phone/tablet sales recently and i cant comment on their quality/service regarding that.
However, I have bough multiple lenses from them (amounting to around 2k across 3 lenses) and they have been solid. Granted, i havent purchased since they have started selling mobile phones/tablets so not sure if this has had an impact on the camera business.
I can vouch for DWI being legit. Ive ordered around $3k worth of stuff in one purchase and it got to e in 3 days. Also got a Galaxy note from them, 3 days also.
They do dodge up the value listed on the invoice on the box to prevent paying tax over $1000
DWI is legit. That's not the point tho. for lenses etc you want warranty to check for decentering or myriad issues.
If you get stuff from a place like DWI, and all goes fine, it doesn't tell you much.
It's when something goes wrong, such as a dead on arrival product, that you get to see how reliable they are. For that price difference, I would rather an Australian manufacture's warranty - and, if in right state, a place I could walk into if it arrvied DOA.
How much after the introductory price?
Ouch. That cost as much as my body. As an amateur photographer I prefer to use a $70 YN467 Yongnuo speedlight. It clearly isn't as good as whatever this, but it works fine. When using it as a bounce flash, I often need to dial my ISO up to 800, but the new sensor on the D3100 is quite happy at 800, and I don't really like to flood rooms with light if I don't need to. My camera instructor suggests that a YN560 would have been a better choice, which lacks TTL (something he suggests we don't use) but has a much more powerful flash.
Anyway, presumably this is good deal for people who want to spend hundreds of dollars on a flash. But, don't keep using the crappy built-in flash in your camera because you think you need to spend this kind of money to get a real speedlight. Correction, don't keep using your built-in flash full-stop; natural lighting will probably look better than built-in flash :P.
If you want TTL and power, the YN565EX is the way to go. Double the price of a YN467, but still a lot cheaper than Canon/Nikon.
I used to think like that, I know what I am doing. this all changed when I bought my first 580EX flash. it easy to predict how to set up a flash & reflectors in the studio. But when I need the flash most it out and about, 580EX has saved the day so many times. Its sometimes wrong but the "smarts" work well with my camera. I have used the sb900 also a brilliant flash and I even go Nikon down the road (may depend on what the Canon 3D/5DMKIII releases are like this year)I will definitely be getting one of these.
Totally agree.. can't compare the Yongnuo stuff to Canon/Nikon. Can understand using Yongnuo to save money if doing strobist type stuff, but I would trust the 'crappy built in flash' on my DSLR more than Yongnuo. I got two Yongnuo flashes and triggers to use wireless.. and the quality just isn't there. By all means, good to play around with, but I would never want to rely on them.. and from my expeirence of one of them only getting super hot to touch when in use (the body, not the flash head) I wouldn't want to even attach one of these to my DSLR.
I had the yongnuo triggers suddenly die on me during a recent holiday.. thank goodness I had the CLS between camera and SB-800 to fall back on or a whole shoot would have been messed up.
I can second the recommendation of the $70 YN467 Yongnuo speedlight.I'm amazed it works so well at this price.
If you're a professional photographer, you may want to look elsewhere, but for a hobbyist that only takes occasional photos like myself, the Yongnuo is fantastic. It has a pretty bright flash and works great with TTL on my Nikon D5000
I got mine for $80 something dollars, with a diffuser cover included.
I'm still on the lookout for a good deal on the Canon S100.
So this SB910 would explain the pricing on the SB900 from that other place…
What's new on the SB910 from the unit it replaces? Aside from including a thermal sensor and it having a stubbornly backward incompatible system of coloured white-balance correction filters?
If you don't mind grey market - DWI have it for $550 incl. free priority shipping . http://www.dwidigitalcameras.com.au/store/product.asp?idProd…