Just received my new Inon S2000 Strobe!!

[MRXRAY]

So Joe Cool, Have you put that strobe in the water yet?

 

[Joe Cool]

So Joe Cool, Have you put that strobe in the water yet?

Thank you for the follow-up question. Unfortunately, not yet. I have stopped diving in the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest. However, I will be going on a 35-day dive trip to the Philippines on Feb. 21. I'll have lots of opportunities to play around with the strobe during that trip.

In the meantime, I still have not decided whether I would do a wireless or wired set-up. I am leaning towards doing a wireless set-up because it eliminates the need to set-up a physical connection between the camera housing and strobe. However, I am concerned about the strobe activating because of sunlight and other strobes. On the other hand, a wired set-up is fail-safe as long as it is set-up properly. But, it requires a bit more set-up time.

Phil (Joe Cool)

 

[KhunNeal]

7 full days diving w/ S2000 and no problems, no overheating...but I'm using the eneloop batteries as recommended.

 

[skynscuba]

I haven't seen the S2000 in person, but those controls look pretty small. Can they be set while wearing 5mm gloves (with somewhat numb fingers)?

 

[KhunNeal]

That might be difficult, however if you use the strobe in automatic ettl mode i.e. auto with a camera that uses pre-flash, than you should not need to change any of the settings UW.

If you want to shot in manual, it might be tough. In 3 days of diving I only went to manual once, and that was to try and capture a lobster hidden under a ledge and that experiment only gave me so-so results.