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Comments about Nikon Nikon R1 Wireless Close-up Speedlight System for i-TTL SLRs with 2 SB-R200 Speedlights, and System Components:
This is an excellent system for macro field work. This is Creative lighting on the fly just by dialing in a few settings on the wireless commander. . Keep in mind that this is sold as a CLOSE-UP system! Although I rave about the macro work it is a system that can grow.
I now use the SB 600s and 800s for fast environmental portraits. No more lugging large studio lights. However you can build upon it using the commander as the brain for almost any situation.
from Dacula, GA on 7/11/2008
Comments about Nikon Nikon R1 Wireless Close-up Speedlight System for i-TTL SLRs with 2 SB-R200 Speedlights, and System Components:
Only give it a 4 because I was disappointed in the output of the SB200's. But it is great for macro stuff and the ability to move the lights makes it much more useful to me than a ring flash.
[0 of 1 customers found this review helpful]
from chile on 6/12/2008
Comments about Nikon Nikon R1 Wireless Close-up Speedlight System for i-TTL SLRs with 2 SB-R200 Speedlights, and System Components:
I used the product for Macrophoto.
[9 of 15 customers found this review helpful]
from Meford , MA on 11/13/2006
Comments about Nikon Nikon R1 Wireless Close-up Speedlight System for i-TTL SLRs with 2 SB-R200 Speedlights, and System Components:
Average unit. Very plastic and not durable. Tiny batteries in each flash head, rather anemic unless very very close to subject. Canon system much better_ I am switching to Canon as Nikon is clearly out of touch . TTL experience with D2x inconsistent. Your better of bracketing with a SB 29 on manual. If you are doing medical photography, forget this contraption
[16 of 19 customers found this review helpful]
from Laoag, Philippines on 8/20/2006
Comments about Nikon Nikon R1 Wireless Close-up Speedlight System for i-TTL SLRs with 2 SB-R200 Speedlights, and System Components:
I got this kit mainly for portraits and close-ups. It comes with a booklet of examples of how to use the kit.
The Speedlights are very simple to use. Just a couple of dials for setting channel and group, an on/off switch, and test button. You will have to read the instructions if you want to use the close-up diffuser attachments.
A few small nits: I would like just a little more travel in the tilt head on the SB-R200s. Since the kit is advertised as a close-up kit and comes with pretty much everything else, I would like to see it include the UR-5 adaptor ring which is necessary for use with the 60mm f/2.8 micro-Nikkor. Actually, you can use this lens without the adaptor, but it will hinder very close focusing. You also cannot use autofocus with this lens and the kit mounted on it. The kit is too heavy and strains the lens motor. The manual warns you about this.
I would have liked to see more detail in the manuals about how to use the kit with the SB-800 Speelight in commander mode and more detail with the Nikon D200 internal flash in commander mode. All the examples are with the Nikon D70 using the SU-800 commmander unit which this kit does include. You are a little bit on your own figuring out how to use anything else as a commander. Still, after studying the various manuals for your Speedlights and cameras, you should be up and running within a short time. Refinement takes practice, of course.
The adaptor rings and ring mount work well, but I find only limited use for these. The SB-R200 Speedlights are at their best away from the camera, handheld or on stands. This is true even for macro photography, where you may want to hold one of the flash units under or behind the subject or bouncing off a wall or umbrella.
In general, a very flexible and useful tool.