Daisy Chaining a YS-D1 & Oly UFL-1 Strobes to XZ-1

[Randallr]

I just upgraded to a Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe to work off my Olympus XZ-1 camera in Olympus's OEM housing. I'm pleased to report that the pre-trip mirror test shows it firing and syncing in both DS-TTL II mode and Slave-TTL mode (and I think in manual, but I need to do more testing). I'm using fiber-optic cables to connect.


However, my hope had been to daisy-chain into the setup my UFL-1 strobe, so I could use both lights at the same time. I know that the UFL-1 strobe is firing, but the mirror test shows it's not syncing with the shutter and the other flash. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can get the strobes to sync?

(I posted in the strobe forum, but figured I'd try here. I'm wondering whether the camera's sync settings need adjustment.)

 

[EskilJ]

I haven't tried the UFL-1 strobe, but I assume you should go into "RC" mode to control the UFL-1 from the camera, and then slave the D1 from the UFL-1.

 

[Randallr]

Thanks... But you cant slave the YS-D1 from the UFL-1, because the UFL-1 only has one fiber optic port - you can only do it the other way around, because the YS-D1 has two fiber optic ports.

But I may have resolved it. I changed the camera flash settings from "Fill Flash" to force at 1/64. That gets both strobes in sync, with the YS-D1 attached to the camera, and the UFL-1 chained to the YS-D1. Oddly, the mirror test shows they are both syncing in DS-TTL II mode, Slave-TTL mode, and in Manual mode. I have no idea why, nor do I know whether I am getting "true" TTL. Still, it seems to be working. Let's see what happens at 60'!