ProfF
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Hi All,
I am spending a week in a marine biology class and managing to "sneak" about a dive a day, with the aim of getting experience with the new camera. Setup is NA-EPL3 + two Sea & Sea strobes (YS110a and YS-01) with optical cable.
One immediate problem that I run into is that the camera seems to loose sync with the strobes. The strobes are set up in TTL mode, the camera is manual (Say T = 1/100, F = 5.6) with fill-in flash mode. The phenomna is that I start taking pictures and the strobes work fine, and then at some point the images do not include the strobes (the strobes fire, but image does not include them, and thus the suspicion that the synchronization is lost). So far the relative location of the strobes does not seem to matter, nor the exposure time. This is not pre-flash problem, as I get a series of images correctly lit and then suddenly the camera looses it.
So far, turning the camera on/off seem to solve the problem some of the times. But I don't have good idea why this happens. Would appreciate suggestions (so that I can try them in the dives the next few days).
Thanks!
-Nir
I am spending a week in a marine biology class and managing to "sneak" about a dive a day, with the aim of getting experience with the new camera. Setup is NA-EPL3 + two Sea & Sea strobes (YS110a and YS-01) with optical cable.
One immediate problem that I run into is that the camera seems to loose sync with the strobes. The strobes are set up in TTL mode, the camera is manual (Say T = 1/100, F = 5.6) with fill-in flash mode. The phenomna is that I start taking pictures and the strobes work fine, and then at some point the images do not include the strobes (the strobes fire, but image does not include them, and thus the suspicion that the synchronization is lost). So far the relative location of the strobes does not seem to matter, nor the exposure time. This is not pre-flash problem, as I get a series of images correctly lit and then suddenly the camera looses it.
So far, turning the camera on/off seem to solve the problem some of the times. But I don't have good idea why this happens. Would appreciate suggestions (so that I can try them in the dives the next few days).
Thanks!
-Nir