My wife has just upgraded from the Olympus E-M5 original model to the E-M1 MkII. She is using her Sea & Sea YS-110 alpha strobes while waiting for the new Inons to arrive. They are connected via fiber optic cables.
On the old E-M5, the fill flash was robust. On the new E-M1 MkII, the flash is best described as wimpy; not nearly as robust as the older camera.
Is there a camera or strobe setting or cable problem? How does she obtain the higher power flashes when using fill flash? She is using manual and TTL settings now.
She could just set the in camera flash power in the Super Control Menu (or whatever the name was). That will take away TTL though, so if that's important for her maybe just add some flash exposure comp.
After some "monkeys and typewriters," during which we switched strobes, batteries and fiber optic cords, at first nothing changed. Then after exercising the control knobs on the back of the strobe, the camera started taking photos...
All I can assume now is that the controls were flaky after sitting for around 10 months and a little back-and-forth helped renew their functionality.
So at least for the moment the strobe/camera/housing/cord assemblage seems fine. We will try it again tomorrow and see if it is still OK!
Use
"manual 1" if you have set the Camera Flash to Fill In
or
"Manual 2" if the Camera flash is Manual. Than you can set the Flash power down. I Use 1/64 on by YS-D2 but maybe you need some more to trigger the Flash.
The Second option is better, while you save Battery Power of the Cam.
Latest: One strobe seems to work OK, the other doesn't.
Any suggestions for a repair shop in the US for the YS110alpha?
