Best strobe for G12 w/ RecSea housing?

[Ayitiplonje]

As per photo below, I recently downsized my setup to the G12 with a RecSea housing (w/fisheye lens and supermacro diopters options), but the Sealife Digitial Pro flash shown just died on me. Note that since I took the attached photo, I've built a clamp for a spotting light that sits in the hotshoe of the housing.

I am now looking for suggestions as to the best [single] strobe replacement, taking into consideration my camera/housing setup, cost, flexibility, performance etc. Basically debating Sea&Sea and INON.

While I typically shoot manual, I have heard that s-TTL provides more flexibility via auto-exposure on the strobe. That said, my understanding is that the G12 doesn't shoot s-TTL in manual mode, only TV.

The other photo is a mugshot of a guy I ran into last week down here in Haiti. He looks grumpy, but was actually psyched that I took his picture

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

Jeff

 

[Larry C]

If you want small size, S2000 is a beautiful little strobe. Probably not enough oomph for wide angle. Sea & Sea YS-D1 or Inon Z240 will both work as single strobe. If you can't use the S-ttl feature in manual mode on your G-12, you can set the Z-240 strobe to external auto, set the aperture and the strobe adjusts. With 24 settings, if it's too low or too bright, you can go up or down one. YS-D1 is a hundred bucks cheaper than the Z-240, not quite as small and light, slightly more powerful, has a warmer beam for macro. Lots of manual settings or S-ttl. The Z-240 type 4 can also fire optically without a fibre optic cord, due to a much more sensitive sensor.

 

[Interceptor121]

If you go into the canon corner you will find out that there is a trick to enable sttl on manual on the s95
The G12 ha the same processor so with few tweaks it will work too

 

[Ayitiplonje]

Larry and Interceptor, thanks for the helpful suggestions and tweaking tip.
Cheers,
Jeff