Is this a good deal?

[MZPT]

Hello, I found an SEA & SEA YS-90DX TTL with fiber optic cord for <$200. I know that it's an older version strobe, I have a Sony a6000 and the Fantasea housing. I'm fairly new to photography and am still learning. I was wondering if this strobe will work? Or should I just apply the money I was going to pay for this strobe towards a newer model.

This is what's included for that price:
*SEA & SEA YS-90DX TTL light strobe, fiber optic cable, DX stay tray, and DX arm

Thank you

 

[DazedAndConfuzed]

This strobe's TTL only works with the sync cord, otherwise, you will be using it as a slave that triggers off your camera's flash, and possibly use the strobe's light sensor to do exposure metering, but you have to pre-set the camera's f-stop.

You should be able to find a YS-01 for that price, maybe not the tray & arm, but you might get some loc-line tray for cheap. The YS-01 does DS-TTL, which will emulate your camera's internal flash, just much brighter. So whatever setting you change on the camera, it would not get confused.

Or a YS-03, which is like the YS-01, but only with DS-TTL.