I need to get a Quantum batter for my Nikon SB-28 speedlight. What model do you all recommend? And what kind of recycle time and how many full powered shots can I get with that particular battery? Thanks!

I did some research, and it looks like the Quantum turbo is going to be the best...

Yea! I've heard that the Turbo Z is the best and most portable one...is this what you've found out? Unfortunately I have to have a huge pack for my Q flash which isn't mobile at all and has caused me to leave her home a lot recently.

Turbo and Turbo Z are both great options depending on your specific needs. I have the Turbo and am considering buying a second.

Yay! I just got the Turbo C Compact model as a birthday present from my lovely wife.

It's the model that screws into your tripod socket on your camera. I like it but holy cow! It makes my camera HUGE. Not to mention I can't use my vertical grip with it mounted.. (My finger can't reach the shutter release!)

Has anybody used the Compact model? I know it doesn't have the same ammount of juice as the Turbo or the 2x2 models but it does make things nice and compact, no tethers to a belt mounted battery..

Opinions? I need some.

I use the Turbo Compact that screws under the camera. You can connect the camera without batteries (I use Fuji S3) and the 80dx Speedlight. It worked perfectly well almost all the wedding even since I always bounce the flash or use a difuser like the lightsphere or the flip it. It really charges very fast, very useful when taking pictures when they're entering the church one after the other with the flash straight up with a difuser.

But recently something happend that when I connect the flash, It shoots 2 or three then it turns off. I don't know if its the cable or the battery that's wrong. I have it since about a year and a half. So the last three weddings, I didn't take it with me.

Carlos

I used to use these but switched to the Sony Ni-Mh AA typ.2300mAh rechargeable AA's. They work great, last a long time and are so much more easy to work with. Strongly recommend them. Have a few sets on you and you will never switch back to the big clunkers again.

Nathan, without knowing exactly what you want to achieve with this Turbo battery pack, this may or may not be of any help to you. I second Frank’s comments about switching to rechargables....which you are probably already using. I use the new Energizer 2500 mAh actually made by Sanyo (one of the best battery makers out there right now). A set of four of these in my SB-800 easily last me an entire wedding based on my shooting habits....which in the past has been fairly heavy on flash usage. Not as much now days...this site has inspired me to shoot more natural light.

One thing that I like about regular batteries is they make my setup so much simpler and light weight. A disadvantage is that my gear looks very simple....which might be a bad thing since I show up to many weddings and 5 other people have cameras that look cooler than mine! NOT GOOD....at least in my mind. I know it’s not about the gear, but in the mind of the uneducated average Joe, it is about the gear. I used to use a big flash bracket, a Lumiquest 80-20 and a radio slave attached to all that. People would oooh and ahhh and ask what might a camera like that cost!?!. It probably made the bride feel a bit better about where her money went to see that I had neat looking stuff. That’s no longer the case though...my cameras look similar to every other amature photographer at the wedding and sometimes I feel like my camera should look a tad bit more impressive than everyone else’s. I guess I suffer from camera insecurity.

How did I get all this from your question? I don't know. All I know is that your camera is sure to look pretty cool with the Turbo battery....regardless of why you actually need it.

David a good way to get around this is the 70-210 (or in your case the 80-200). People will still oooh and ahhh. I have an 80-200 in excellent condition, hardly used that I could be talked into parting with if you are interested. I usually carry two complete set ups, one with the 70-210 and flash, and another with the 16-35, or 24-70 and flash so they still ohhh and ahhh. Sometimes though I wonder if this is a bad thing because someone always comes up and wants to get into one of those I have a good camera too discussions. I thought your comment about less flash inspired by the people here was very good. I feel the same and always have my flash set up but not always on. That causes weird looks too because people are like...his flash didn't fire.
Can't beat the high end rechargeables though