Canon g16 strobe issues

[Interceptor121]

Excellent! We both agree. For close up macro when utilizing "front" lighting this strobe feature should work. Otherwise, not so much...

For side, bottom, top or back macro lighting this feature will likely not work (just my opinion as my main strobes do not support the feature). The facts that I base this opinion are that the strobes are no longer co-located or aligned with the camera lens and hence do not sense the same reflected light as the camera sensor. They may be overloaded way before or way after the camera sensor is.

For macro I often orient my strobes perpendicular to the camera lens: either pointing towards or even away from the camera (side, bottom, top lighting). Lots of different effects can be achieved by changing the strobe position. I am just starting to explore the world of back lit macro. Lots for me to learn in this area.

Wide angle also seems to minimize the usefulness of this feature as the general consensus appears to be that your strobes need to be placed some distance from the camera in order to reduce back scatter. Hence what gets reflected to the strobes is often very different from what gets reflected to the camera. But I could be wrong as my wide angle experience is very limited.

Cheers...

You are not correct.

The strobe has a 100 degree light pattern if the light was not reflected back to the lens you would see black.

The reason why strobes are angled straight at wide angle is to counter back scatter, TTL through the camera lens will continue to work as long as there is sufficient reflection however results may be suboptimal hence most people including me shoot manual. This for real wide angle sharks etc

For close focus wide angle the strobes are much closer to the lens and even if you point them forward the reading is anyway correct

For what concerns the AUTO Inon mode the light reflection always goes back to the strobe when you aim it at the subject (and you do that at close range usually) so as long as the distance strobe to subject is similar to the distance lens to subject all is good. This is consistent to the advice of positioning your strobe at 45 degrees to the subject. The strobe still aims at the subject but is away form the lens to subject line to minimise back scatter

As the G16 really has no options for real wide angle because the lenses require small apertures you are left with close focus wide angle in this scenario the auto mode works pretty well with some minor adjustments so it is a well worth feature for this strobe and for me the D2000 or Z240 as the best match, the inon S2000 is similar to a Sea and Sea in terms of features and I would not recommend it, I would prefer the YS-01 instead for cost reasons as it actually has more power than the S2000 and the D2000, this requires my script though and that is sometimes painful for people.
As I was getting requests and queries I have now taken it off the net