I have switched over to the Nikon Z8 and will be on another Black Water trip soon.

In an ideal world I would want to have my Retra Pro X strobes burst-shoot a couple of images. But are they capable of it ?

(I know they are not super at it due to the AA batteries)

I have just tried it and only the first image gets light, even on the lowest power setting.

Am I making some basic mistrake or is this just not possible with the Retra`s ?

Specs:

Nikon Z8

Nauticam housing with Nauticam LED Flashtrigger

Retra Pro X with battery booster/supercharger

I would have thought you’d get 2-3 shots - I usually do but have never really tried seriously long bursts - but of course depends on your camera settings: ISO, aperture, Manual/TTL etc. What are you trying to do?

Need more details of what you are doing, what trigger, manual or TTL, are you using the booster, how many frames/sec you are trying etc?

1 hour ago, TimG said:

I would have thought you’d get 2-3 shots - I usually do but have never really tried seriously long bursts - but of course depends on your camera settings: ISO, aperture, Manual/TTL etc. What are you trying to do?

Thanks Tim. That`s what I expected as well. I am trying typical "Black Water" setttings with Manual Strobe 1/200, F29 and ISO 400 and would love to get 2-3 shots per burst..

1 hour ago, Chris Ross said:

Need more details of what you are doing, what trigger, manual or TTL, are you using the booster, how many frames/sec you are trying etc?

Thanks Chris, as stated in first post:

Nikon Z8

Nauticam housing with Nauticam LED Flashtrigger

Retra Pro X with battery booster/supercharger

I was attempting burst shooting the Z8 with 10 frames/second, Manual Strobe/no TTL.

To be sure I tried the strobes with booster on lowest power, still only the first shot got light.

f29 is a pretty small aperture which lets in precious little light (and must lead to considerable image softness too). And 1/200 shutter speed is quite fast. Could you not use, say, f11 and 1/60? I doubt though you’re ever going to be able to shoot 10 frames a second with any strobe.