Canon S100 and Sea & Sea YS-110a

[cfelliot]

Any thoughts on this combination?

 

[Jun Lao]

winning pair!

 

[acooper]

Relatively compact, good photo quality, a great choice. The biggest issue is a slower shutter response than a DSLR. I shoot a G11 and a YS-110, with an Ultralight tray & arm.

 

[Interceptor121]

The YS-110a is a very good strobe with Guide number of 12 in water a wide beam, it also takes a sync chord so can stay with you for some time

For what concerns the S100, some say the Olympus XZ-1 is better

 

[cfelliot]

I already own the S100. My old system was a G9 with a YS-27. I'm looking forward to using Av with TTL via the optic cable.

At one time I thought I wanted to go the other direction moving up to a DSLR, but have come to realize that only going on 1 or 2 vacations a year, I will never be a pro-level photographer UW. Once again the OCD beast has been tamed.

Any comments on S100 setting for this combo?

 

[cfelliot]

Took the combo of the S100 and Sea&Sea 110a to the pool this past weekend. Not much for fish, but the few test shots I took came out very well. The following is the ever-present band-aid fish which I shot at Av 5.6 with a 85mm equivalent zoom from about a foot. Can't wait to get to Roatan.

 

[ivakdiver]

Glad to see I'm not alone taking photos of anything just to check on exposure etc. Last dive at the bottom of the Niagara River, viz was so bad, all I could find were sand ripples,pebbles, bottles and zebra mussels. But my exposures were ok.