Canon S120 with Sea & Sea YS-D1 settings

[Kesh68]

Greetings! I just bought the Canon S120 with Ikelite housing and the Sea & Sea Ys-D1 strobe, they are connected by fiber optic cable. The salesman told me to set the YS-D1 at the manual mode (single lightning bolt logo) and the S120 in Manual mode as well.

Since I'm a beginner to underwater photography, can I use TTL mode on the YS-D1 and the P, A or underwater scene mode on the S120?

Which mode/settings on the strobe and camera should I use to get best results for a beginner.

Thanks!

 

[tongben]

Hi, I used to have the Canon G9, G10, S90 worked with the YS-110a. On the camera, set the strobe power to minimal (-2), any Auto, P, A, S, M, C will do. On the strobe, I set to slave, TTL, Full power for fully automatic. Any non-full power setting on strobe will put the strobe to manual. Also, on camera, any flash power different than -2 does not drive the TTL. I came to this conclusion by testing hundreds of setting combinations in a dark room. I was a beginner at the time so fully automatic lighting was important. It still is but I do switch to manual when, in rare case, the auto strobe failed.

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[Interceptor121]

Greetings! I just bought the Canon S120 with Ikelite housing and the Sea & Sea Ys-D1 strobe, they are connected by fiber optic cable. The salesman told me to set the YS-D1 at the manual mode (single lightning bolt logo) and the S120 in Manual mode as well.

Since I'm a beginner to underwater photography, can I use TTL mode on the YS-D1 and the P, A or underwater scene mode on the S120?

Which mode/settings on the strobe and camera should I use to get best results for a beginner.

Thanks!

Set the camera in P,Tv or Av with flash in automatic mode red eye OFF flash set to forced ON and the YS-D1 in TTL mode with power dial at full

This will make the strobe work in STTL

If you put the camera in manual mode and manual flash STTL on the YS-D1 will not work and you will need to set it at no preflash as the sales guy said

There is a CHDK script that I wrote that makes the canon work in TTL also in manual mode