Steyr
Contributor
Hi all,
I recently bought an E-M5 Mark III and it's an amazing camera. But I'm having trouble getting it to work with my Sea & Sea YS-D2 strobes. Hoping someone can help.
With the EM5iii in aperture priority, F8, ISO 200, flash slow limit set to 1/100 and the X-sync on the default 1/250, in very shallow (2-3m), fairly well lit water (8-10m visibility, but overcast skies), with the strobes (optical cables) on manual settings, every shot is still massively underexposed. Even if I crank the strobes up to their max GN32, point them directly at the subject and am at the minimum focal distance (ie. close), the image is still very dark. If I turn the flash off, the camera is managing a shutter speed of about 1/40 using ambient light. Forcing it to a minimum speed of 1/100 with the flash/strobes on, it's very dark. It shouldn't be! I visually checked and the strobes are firing. What's going on??
It's almost like the strobes are firing out of sync with the camera shutter. Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed relating to this? On the strobes I tried both manual modes (one for pre-flash, one without), and the result is the same.
If I drop the aperture to F3.6 and crank up the ISO to 500 I can get some better exposed shots, but barely any improvement over turning the flash off and just using ambient light.
In TTL mode (DS-TTL), the image is massively overexposed. A white frame with a couple of darker spots. Should DS-TTL work with the E-M5? I haven't yet tried Slave TTL.
I don't believe there is anything wrong with the strobes. I previously used them on an E-PL5 and they worked great, either in manual mode or TTL (noting that the E-PL5 manual said TTL wasn't supported, but it appeared to work just fractionally overexposed).
I'm hoping there's some simple thing I haven't done and it's user error at play, but can anyone offer some ideas on what I've done wrong?
I recently bought an E-M5 Mark III and it's an amazing camera. But I'm having trouble getting it to work with my Sea & Sea YS-D2 strobes. Hoping someone can help.
With the EM5iii in aperture priority, F8, ISO 200, flash slow limit set to 1/100 and the X-sync on the default 1/250, in very shallow (2-3m), fairly well lit water (8-10m visibility, but overcast skies), with the strobes (optical cables) on manual settings, every shot is still massively underexposed. Even if I crank the strobes up to their max GN32, point them directly at the subject and am at the minimum focal distance (ie. close), the image is still very dark. If I turn the flash off, the camera is managing a shutter speed of about 1/40 using ambient light. Forcing it to a minimum speed of 1/100 with the flash/strobes on, it's very dark. It shouldn't be! I visually checked and the strobes are firing. What's going on??
It's almost like the strobes are firing out of sync with the camera shutter. Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed relating to this? On the strobes I tried both manual modes (one for pre-flash, one without), and the result is the same.
If I drop the aperture to F3.6 and crank up the ISO to 500 I can get some better exposed shots, but barely any improvement over turning the flash off and just using ambient light.
In TTL mode (DS-TTL), the image is massively overexposed. A white frame with a couple of darker spots. Should DS-TTL work with the E-M5? I haven't yet tried Slave TTL.
I don't believe there is anything wrong with the strobes. I previously used them on an E-PL5 and they worked great, either in manual mode or TTL (noting that the E-PL5 manual said TTL wasn't supported, but it appeared to work just fractionally overexposed).
I'm hoping there's some simple thing I haven't done and it's user error at play, but can anyone offer some ideas on what I've done wrong?