Nikon or secondary market remote cord: I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the...

Nukepr Loc: Citrus County, FL

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

I bought a Vivitar remote cord for use with my D3100 and didn't care for it too much. It's was a very stiff coiled cord and I found it to want to pull over the tripod that I attached my flash on. I don't know if the Nikon branded would work much better. I don't understand why all these cords are coiled to begin with. My D7000 will act as a commander for my SB600 and I find that it works fine.

amehta Loc: Boston

Nukepr wrote:

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

I got a third-party cord and it didn't fire about 10-20% of the time when I tested it, so I returned it the next day. If I don't care if the flash fires every time, I'll just use the wireless mode. The cord is for when the flash is on a bracket and I'm shooting an event, so it better fire consistently.

Mark7829 Loc: Calfornia

I have the Nikon remote - no problems. Works great.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nukepr wrote:

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

In another thread, MT Shooter warns against buying non-Nikon cords.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-247829-1.html

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Nukepr wrote:

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

I have a Nikon cord and it has always worked fine.

zneb240 Loc: New South Wales - Australia

Nukepr wrote:

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

Nukepr,

I found this post very interesting as I recently purchased three ultra-cheap (and I mean cheap) third party flash cords of different lengths (2 x three metres and 1 x 10 metres) on-line. I'd be reluctant to buy third party if I was professional and earned a living with a camera however....

I've used them often with a D800 and a D300 with SB-600 and SB-900 Speedlights and they have proved to be 100% reliable - for me. As an aside, just to see what would happen, I linked all three together (that's 16 metres) and they still worked 100%. Anyway, that's my experience. :thumbup: :thumbup:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Wiring is so important and so delicate, that I prefer to buy good stuff. There is the wire itself, the connections to other parts, and the end pieces themselves. If any one of these is a weak point, the cable fails.

Mark7829 Loc: Calfornia

We are talking about a cable release or an intervalometer? As I have the nikon intervalometer and would not use anything else.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Mark7829 wrote:

We are talking about a cable release or an intervalometer? As I have the nikon intervalometer and would not use anything else.

Cord for a flash.

Nukepr Loc: Citrus County, FL

Thanks for all the information. In reviewing the comments and thinking through the decision, I realized I am purchasing a cord to connect two sensitive electronic devices, so saving a few bucks is not worth the risk. I am ordering the Nikon SC-28 TTL remote cord from B&H today. Thanks again, all.

amehta Loc: Boston

Nukepr wrote:

Thanks for all the information. In reviewing the comments and thinking through the decision, I realized I am purchasing a cord to connect two sensitive electronic devices, so saving a few bucks is not worth the risk. I am ordering the Nikon SC-28 TTL remote cord from B&H today. Thanks again, all.

I have used that cord for two events flawlessly. Once it's on, you won't even think, "will it work?"

OonlyBonly

Buy the best and cry once....

Hunakai

Bought an SB800 about 10 years ago, along with a Nikon SB-29.
It broke last week.
I can remember keeping a fistful of sync cords for my older flashes, because they would invariably fail within months.
Nkon.
Nikon.
Nikon.

tradergeorge Loc: Newport, Kentucky

Nukepr wrote:

I have a Nikon D7100 and SB 700 speedlight. I am considering buying a remote cord for the flash. Do secondary market cords work well with the Nikon flash lighting system, or should I go with the Nikon remote cord.

I have a Nikon cord and also an aftermarket cord someone gave me...They appear to work equally well. Also, I have bought those VERY cheap IR remotes and have never had a problem with any of them. The chips they use are a "commodity", so it is very likely that the guts of the NIKON one are the same as the aftermarket one. The NIKON ones DO seem to be sturdier, but since I baby my equipment, I have few problems with things like that...