Hi everyone,
I am new to underwater photography, after upgrading from a GoPro to a tough TG 7 with sea frogs housing and one sea frogs sf-01 strobe, and the standard sync cable that the strobe comes with.
I tested the setup in a lake and above water for just a few pics and it seemed to work fine, but now at my first diving holiday I had quite a lot of incorrect triggers where the strobe triggered too early or late and the image was dark.
In some cases, the strobe did not trigger correctly for 5-6 pictures consecutively, and sometimes just occasionally, but in total I had 20-50% wrong triggers.
I use the underwater or P mode with flash set to RC.
I noticed, it does work better (90% correct) when I set to full flash mode on the camera, but then the recycle time of the camera flash goes up to 2-3 sec (while recycle time on the sf-01 is about 0.5 sec).
Setting the flash to LM mode underwater seemed to temporarily fix the issue, too.
Any idea what could be the cause of this issue?
Many thanks for your help in advance!
I am new to underwater photography, after upgrading from a GoPro to a tough TG 7 with sea frogs housing and one sea frogs sf-01 strobe, and the standard sync cable that the strobe comes with.
I tested the setup in a lake and above water for just a few pics and it seemed to work fine, but now at my first diving holiday I had quite a lot of incorrect triggers where the strobe triggered too early or late and the image was dark.
In some cases, the strobe did not trigger correctly for 5-6 pictures consecutively, and sometimes just occasionally, but in total I had 20-50% wrong triggers.
I use the underwater or P mode with flash set to RC.
I noticed, it does work better (90% correct) when I set to full flash mode on the camera, but then the recycle time of the camera flash goes up to 2-3 sec (while recycle time on the sf-01 is about 0.5 sec).
Setting the flash to LM mode underwater seemed to temporarily fix the issue, too.
Any idea what could be the cause of this issue?
Many thanks for your help in advance!