3D Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash
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An advanced Fill flash mode where the camera is using the lens internal D chip which provides it with additional subject to distance information. The Multi-Sensor Balanced Fill-Flash (without the 3D) on the other hand does not need the distance input to work.
Using your camera-lens-flash in this combination should give you natural fill-flash light. It is fill flash so you should not use it when you need more light than just for filling.
It is a mode that is good for situations including bright subjects, subjects which are off center and for small subjects against a distant background.
The camera fires off a series of small, so called "monitor pre flashes" and measures the light coming back in using multiple TTL sensors. Combined with the distance-to-subject information it adjusts the light for the main flash. Older camera/speedlight combinations use D-TTL, meanwhile superseded by the the i-TTL mode's of later camera/flash combinations.
See also: The in-depth article on Nikon TTL-BL Flash with sample images, and you probably want to see the information on Nikon's Creative Lighting System.
If you haven't seen it, we discuss Speedlights a lot.
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