Strobe for the Canon A95 UW Housing

[Chrissie]

I recently purchased the Canon A95 and the UW housing for it. What should I get for a strobe? How much do they go for?

I took a ton of pictures while in the Caribbean but think they would have come out better with a strobe. I posted them in the Gallery (under Chrissie). I tweaked them with Photoshop to get rid of the blue haze!

Chrissie

 

[alcina]

This is a popular question! There are a lot of strobes out there. For a comparison on their properties check this out...

Be prepared to pay substantially more for a strobe than you did for your camera plus housing. They are not cheap and the "cheap" ones are mostly you get what you pay for. Once you have a look at the strobe finder above, do a search with the Advanced Search function here to find out details on each one.

If I could buy one strobe right now it would be Inon's D2000. I have the 220s and absolutely love it...would recommend it. I love manual control and the 2000 has even more settings for that plus what is shaping up to be good ttl-type control. Inons are small, lightweight and take AA batteries so I only have to drag one charger around.

I also very much like the Ikelite strobes - I have three.

Good luck!