Hello,
I've got a S&S YS-02 strobe and I am very happy with it for my (mostly) macro shoots. I love its' simplicity and size/compactness. The fact that it is manual doesn't bother me at all - on the contrary I'm so used to it that I actually like it.
I think though that it's time to get a second strobe as these shadows have started really annoying me.
Budget is limited though. I really wish I could find another second hand YS-02 - but it seems there is nothing available for some time now.
Hence new seems the only option. I was looking for S&S again. The YS-01 (manual+TTL) looks good but sells for about 380euros while the YS-02 (TTL only) sells for about 230euros which seems much more feasible.
The question is how "bad" TTL is compared to manual? Especially taking into account that one strobe (my existing one) will be manual while the other (the new one) will be TTL. Can this cause problems? I am afraid that I will practically loose the manual control of my existing strobe, because whatever changes I'll do to it, will be practically canceled out by the TTL strobe except maybe for fine details like shadows etc.
The way I (mostly) shoot now is that I set things (always in manual) around a sweet-spot for focal-length/aperture size/speed/iso and strobe power depending on the conditions of the dive and I make micro adjustments (quite often only strobe power) for each shot if/when needed.
Keep in mind that my camera (sony a5100) has quite limited number of buttons hence most of the settings (eg flash compensation) are buried in menus and I'd hate to fiddle with these extensively underwater.
Your thoughts please.
Thanks a lot
I've got a S&S YS-02 strobe and I am very happy with it for my (mostly) macro shoots. I love its' simplicity and size/compactness. The fact that it is manual doesn't bother me at all - on the contrary I'm so used to it that I actually like it.
I think though that it's time to get a second strobe as these shadows have started really annoying me.
Budget is limited though. I really wish I could find another second hand YS-02 - but it seems there is nothing available for some time now.
Hence new seems the only option. I was looking for S&S again. The YS-01 (manual+TTL) looks good but sells for about 380euros while the YS-02 (TTL only) sells for about 230euros which seems much more feasible.
The question is how "bad" TTL is compared to manual? Especially taking into account that one strobe (my existing one) will be manual while the other (the new one) will be TTL. Can this cause problems? I am afraid that I will practically loose the manual control of my existing strobe, because whatever changes I'll do to it, will be practically canceled out by the TTL strobe except maybe for fine details like shadows etc.
The way I (mostly) shoot now is that I set things (always in manual) around a sweet-spot for focal-length/aperture size/speed/iso and strobe power depending on the conditions of the dive and I make micro adjustments (quite often only strobe power) for each shot if/when needed.
Keep in mind that my camera (sony a5100) has quite limited number of buttons hence most of the settings (eg flash compensation) are buried in menus and I'd hate to fiddle with these extensively underwater.
Your thoughts please.
Thanks a lot