Well it couldn’t happen at a worse time. Was blowing out all my photos on a recent dive to the Northern BC coast. Turns out my old D2 finally crapped out and has the typical board failure. Not bad considering it’s quite a few years old. Funny thing is my D1 is still just as good as day 1!

Worst part about it all is I’m heading to the Dominican in under two weeks and scrambling to get a stop gap replacement. I was planning on upgrading to the Inon z335’s when they were released so don't want to buy a new strobe now. May just run the trip single strobe.

There is always something!

Unfortunately I don't think I would be holding my breath waiting for the new INON, they discontinued the Z330 strobe in early 2023. They popped up showing a prototype over a year ago and since then crickets. We're spoiled for choice currently with strobes with lots of options. The INON Z series strobes were great strobes, quite reliable, and I understand why you might want them. You could consider a new pair of S220 strobes now, apparently quite powerful and nearly a match for you YS-D2, but otherwise there's lot's to choose from.

Of course having said this they might announce the new strobe next week, but doesn't seem likely.

Just going to say, having owned/used the old D2000, the Z240 and several other Inon strobes, the S220 is as powerful as the Z240 was. And folks considered at that time it to be an acceptable wide angle strobe. The S220 is so tiny and is rock solid in both manual and TTL. The S220 is not the S2000, it is a much improved strobe.

I am sure now that I have invested in Retra strobes that Inon will dump five new models on the market to make me go nuts and shake my fists to the heavens, but, according to several photo stores, not going to happen.