KevinG58
Contributor
I don't see many replies here but I'll try anyway. I've been pretty happy with my pair of YS-01 strobes for three or four years, except they will not trigger when flash power on my Olympus E-PL1 and now my E-PL5, are set to anything less than full power.
By both Oly manuals I should be able to conserve camera battery power by turning the flash power down, and still trigger the strobes. The recommendation was 1/64th. I can get intermittent firing on the E-PL5 only at 1/3rd power set. The E-PL1 will not fire strobes at anything but full power (I've fired stobes in RC mode on it but lose ability to turn power down in RC.)
Last year I changed out one of my fiber optic cables when it suddenly stopped firing either strobe (I swapped cables to test), even though I could see it still conducted light.
Are the YS-01s just sensitive about the amount of light it takes for them to fire? Or am I missing soemthing really simple?
And if it matters, I use rarely use TTL. 99% of the time I am in Manual on the camera & strobes.
Thanks in advance.
By both Oly manuals I should be able to conserve camera battery power by turning the flash power down, and still trigger the strobes. The recommendation was 1/64th. I can get intermittent firing on the E-PL5 only at 1/3rd power set. The E-PL1 will not fire strobes at anything but full power (I've fired stobes in RC mode on it but lose ability to turn power down in RC.)
Last year I changed out one of my fiber optic cables when it suddenly stopped firing either strobe (I swapped cables to test), even though I could see it still conducted light.
Are the YS-01s just sensitive about the amount of light it takes for them to fire? Or am I missing soemthing really simple?
And if it matters, I use rarely use TTL. 99% of the time I am in Manual on the camera & strobes.
Thanks in advance.