Hi everyone! Has anyone used these flashes? Are they good to start with? I'm planning on getting two for WA & macro. There are not much information about it on the internet.

One day diving I met a guy who used one SF-01 strobe for his TG-7, but we didn't have enough time to talk to find out more about the strobe.

Is it worth it's money? I'm afraid this is the only readily available option for me. Another option is Sea&Sea YS-D3 DUO.
Does Sea&Sea TTL work from the box with 5-pin connector?

I like that SF-01 uses 18650 batteries, but on the surface I found it better to use TTL in most cases, and I think it would be better underwater too.

I use Canon R8 with 15-30 & 100 mm lenses inside Seafrogs housing.

What are your thoughts?

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by KPV

The previous Sea frogs models were pretty poor and didn't work as advertised, very little info available on reviews online so a bit of a gamble. On the S&S the 5 pin cable connection seems to be manual only.

TTL underwater is not necessarily better, some of the newer strobes which emulate the camera manufacturers TTL protocols seem to do quite well, slave TTL possibly not as good, probably depends on how well the strobes slave TTL matches with the manufacturers system. Manual strobe UW is not that difficult and is more repeatable.

You don't say what camera you use, this can make a difference. If you are using a TG series camera, these strobes might be overkill.

@Chris Ross I use Canon R8 with 15-30 & 100 mm lenses inside Seafrogs housing. Holiday diver, so don't want to invest much.

6 minutes ago, KPV said:

@Chris Ross I use Canon R8 with 15-30 & 100 mm lenses inside Seafrogs housing. Holiday diver, so don't want to invest much.

OK thanks, you could probably utilise the higher power of the S&S strobe. Optically triggering might be better if you want TTL . Wired sync cords have another set of o-rings you need to maintain and only support manual operation it seems. Optical sync of course would need a trigger.