I bought a new Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe and a new fibre optical cable to use with my OMD EM5 and its Nauticam housing, but I am experiencing troubles getting a good exposure with the TTL. I am fine to shoot with manual but I bought the strobe hoping to be able to use the TTL for my macro work. I've followed all the posts on it and all the trouble-shooting, but I am still not achieving the results that can be achieved by manual settings. All the same I would really like to get it to work. I've tried adjusting the flash power from full to 1/64 as well as all the EV compensation and strobe positions and metering systems, I've got fully charged batteries and fast SD cards.
Any help would be highly appreciated as I am on a Red Sea trip right now and would love to get the TTL to work.
Ian
Hmmm. I have the EM5 and dual S&S YS-D1s. I shoot TTL and get great results in macro and WA.
Strobes on TTL, camera fill flash. Strobe dial +0.3 or 0 EV?
I've tried adjusting the flash power from full to 1/64 to work.
Don't know what exactly you did, but "full to 1/64" sounds as if your camera flash is set to "manual" whereas it should be set to "fill".
Jock
Hey thanks guys it was on full and not fill
one more thing has the distance from the lens to object and strobe to object have to be near the same when using ttl to get the right exposure ?
ian
Hey thanks guys it was on full and not fill
one more thing has the distance from the lens to object and strobe to object have to be near the same when using ttl to get the right exposure ?
ian
I don't understand this.
Hey thanks guys it was on full and not fill
one more thing has the distance from the lens to object and strobe to object have to be near the same when using ttl to get the right exposure ?
ian
No.
Thanks again Jlyle
Hi There,
I have the same problem but I have a Nauticam NA-GF3 with a Lumix DMC-GF3 inside and a YS-D1 Strobe, also I don't get great results in the TTL mode of this strobe, the camera on gives M great colors with macro but with wide angle the colors are very dull, the flash flashes and the light on the YS-D1 strobe lights up "green" stating that the results should be good but it is unfortunately far from that.
Settings used:
Camera:
Manual 60 or 125/1 sec F 2.8 to f8, ISO 160, flash on flash mode as there is no other setting in RAW format
Flash:
TTL with fibre cable
Cor
Hi, I also purchased a Sea&Sea YS-D1 strobe...I have a Sony NEX-6 in a Meikon housing conected with S&S fibre optic cable. I have been using the DS-TTL 11 (blue light) but have been geeting crazy exposures. Do I need a TTL converter to use with DS-TTL11 (I carn't do with my housing) or just click back to the other S-TTL....confussed, plese help...
Hi There,
I have the same problem but I have a Nauticam NA-GF3 with a Lumix DMC-GF3 inside and a YS-D1 Strobe, also I don't get great results in the TTL mode of this strobe, the camera on gives M great colors with macro but with wide angle the colors are very dull, the flash flashes and the light on the YS-D1 strobe lights up "green" stating that the results should be good but it is unfortunately far from that.
Settings used:
Camera:
Manual 60 or 125/1 sec F 2.8 to f8, ISO 160, flash on flash mode as there is no other setting in RAW format
Flash:
TTL with fibre cable
Cor
you may have to pump-up your ISO to 200 or 400 / I find best results with f14 - f18 / with 1/60 to 1/160 (whatever is your highist flash syc) Maybe go back to basics in A or S programe with flash on '0' just a suggestion...cheere mate. I'm also having probs with my YS-D1
