Flash Control Options
You can take pictures using the built-in flash, a flash unit mounted on the camera accessory shoe, or one or more remote flash units.
Built-in or Camera-Mounted Flash
Take pictures using:
The built-in flash (see 0 Flash Photography)
A flash unit mounted on the camera accessory shoe (see the manual provided with the flash unit)
Remote Flash Photography
The following types of wireless flash control (Advanced Wireless Lighting, or AWL) can be used with one or more remote flash units:
Optical AWL via the built-in flash (0 Built-in Flash/SB-500)
Optical AWL via a shoe-mounted flash unit (0 Built-in Flash/SB-500, Other Flash Units)
Radio AWL using settings chosen with the SB-5000 (0 Radio AWL Using the Controls on an SB-5000)
Radio AWL combined with optical AWL via the camera’s built-in flash (0 Optical/Radio AWL)
Radio AWL (0 Radio AWL)
