Strobe choices?

One thing you may want to take into acount is the possibility to use Mathias ttl OEM converter (specially for macro strobes which are the ones you are looking for...) with your D2X then the list narrows a lot:

Hartenberger 125 HS TTL Digital

Hartenberger 250 HS TTL Digital

Hartenberger 625 HS TTL Digital

Inon D 2000W

Sea & Sea YS-60 TTL mod. Mike-Dive Speed-version of YS60 from www.mike-dive.de

Subtronic Maxi TTL

Subtronic Midi TTL

Subtronic Mini TTL '05 works with Nikon D100

Subtronic Nova

And MAYBE (not tried yet) Inon Z240

Good stats! A useful list!

Sad as it makes me I would actually pay extra NOT to have TTL circuitry in my new strobes. If I get another Subtronic I will pay them to take out the TTL circuitry if I have too. All I want is a control on the back that RELIABLY allows me to set the flash power.

Any other circuit that has control over the flash power is just something else to go wrong. I do not want any intelligence in my strobes. Just great light at the power I set!

I realise that my views are not necessarily the norm!

Alex

Currently shooting Sea and Sea strobes - missing my subtronics.

Alex

How very true! There are some of us (I suspect a minority) who would agree totally with you on this - I would like a manual only, accurate, multi-power unit with horseshoe flash tube and warm tone. I'll ask Seacam but suspect that this would be a very small market indeed, in what is already a pretty small one.

That would definately be my strobe, no circuits or intelligence, just a robust housing, interchangable batterymanagement, with big knobs knobs at the side.

I asked Ikelite a couple of times why they don't make the manual-controllers for the old strobes and never got a good respons back. If you can make a TTL-slavesensor for the analogue strobes (which are discontinued) you can also make manual-controller is my idea, must be a marketing thing to have us all upgrade to DS-strobes.

Fortunately there is Matthias OEM-converter now, so I can finally have some controll (from -3 EV to 0 in 1/3 steps) of my two SS100's which I still love, but it is a lot of wiring and rerouting which increases the failchange. (encountered once underwater that the battery of the convertor was empty....)

Amusingly, I am out here in Sipadan and I am using a YS30 as my main strobe - with the YS90AUTO providing fill at about a stop less power (the power is set low to increase recycle time).

The YS30 just has one control - ON. Its is working for me today.

Alex

...(the power is set low to increase recycle time).

Decrease recycle time?

~Matt Segal

One thing you may want to take into acount is the possibility to use Mathias ttl OEM converter (specially for macro strobes which are the ones you are looking for...) with your D2X then the list narrows a lot:

 

Hartenberger 125 HS TTL Digital 

Hartenberger 250 HS TTL Digital 

Hartenberger 625 HS TTL Digital 

Inon D 2000W 

Sea & Sea YS-60 TTL mod. Mike-Dive Speed-version of YS60 from www.mike-dive.de

Subtronic Maxi TTL 

Subtronic Midi TTL 

Subtronic Mini TTL '05 works with Nikon D100

Subtronic Nova

And MAYBE (not tried yet) Inon Z240

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Inon Z240 finally is in the list....