Sea & Sea YS-110

[cjbikes]

Greetings to one and all...

I am looking into buying a used Sea & Sea YS-110 at a really good price, and it's in great condition.

However, while looking at the specs on the Sea & Sea website, I just noticed that this strobe has been discontinued.

Does anyone out there know why???

I don't mind buying one, however if it was discontinued because of known defects or problems, I don't want to inherit someone else's headache.

Thanks as usual for your responses.

CJ

[henryc32]

Hi

Read this thread on th board

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sea-sea/237426-anomalous-ys-110-strobe-operation-when-shooting-1g-camera-dx-1g-housing-2.html

The YS-110 has in general been a good strobe. I sometimes mail order from Hong Kong (much better prices, great guy I deal with, but high shipping costs). He informed me the YS-110 was being discontinued about 8 days ago. He has sold a lot of YS-110's with a good return policy and has gotten very few back - no more than with other strobes he sells like the YS-27 or Inon strobes (D2000 & Z240). For what it is worth, Sea & Sea told him there would be a replacement strobe in August with additional features including digitial TTL (what ever that is - Ikelite protocol? or native Canon or Nikon protocols?).

Hope this helps.

[cjbikes]

Henry....

Thanks for the input and all the great information, very insightful, really appreciate it.

And ditto on Hong Kong, that's where I was going to buy it. :-)

CJ

[cowjazz]

Hi

For what it is worth, Sea & Sea told him there would be a replacement strobe in August with additional features including digitial TTL (what ever that is - Ikelite protocol? or native Canon or Nikon protocols?).

Put me at the front of the line if Sea and Sea makes this happen. I have used the YS-110 with two different cameras in manual, and I can find not fault with the strobe. If Sea and Sea can produce a strobe that is as good as the YS-110, and is compatible with Ikelite's TTL circuitry...Sea and Sea will be siting on a gold mine.

[hutterw]

Sea and Sea will be siting on a gold mine.

Given the way Sea&Sea has responded to the YS-110/DX-1G issue, there’ll get no more of my hard earned gold.

[mrlipis]

Interesting post as I just dumped my YS 90s in favor of the Inon 2000. Using the optical fiber on my DX1g with the YS90s I got very inconsistent flashes. I bought the Inon and immediately got positive results as they are designed for optical cable. Which leads me to this... I have two YS90s that just became available. One is a TTL Auto and the other is the TTL DUO. both for $600.00. I think these are great strobes as long as they are used with a sync cord. I just ordered my second Inon and can't wait to see their performance as a duo. Great price on those YS90s if anyone is interested.

Bruce