TG-4 Rig upgrades

[tursiops]

I'm curious about your setup Skeptic 14 and was hoping you could share your experience with the YS-D2. On my TG4 rig I recently replaced a single YS-03 with a single YS-D2. Have noticed in pool testing and one trip that the YS-D2 sometime seems to randomly fire after taking a shot in TTL mode. The TG4 internal flash is not firing and it is not recording an image from these "random" flashes. I estimate that they are not full power flashes as I can look at it without being blinded. I cannot find anything in the Sea & Sea manual that explains the behavior and was hoping someone with more experience could shed light on this.

Are you firing the YS-D2 with a fiber optic cable from the camera? How is it attached? It it possible there is light entering the cable at the camera end?

 

[Skeptic14]

I'm curious about your setup Skeptic 14 and was hoping you could share your experience with the YS-D2. On my TG4 rig I recently replaced a single YS-03 with a single YS-D2. Have noticed in pool testing and one trip that the YS-D2 sometime seems to randomly fire after taking a shot in TTL mode. The TG4 internal flash is not firing and it is not recording an image from these "random" flashes. I estimate that they are not full power flashes as I can look at it without being blinded. I cannot find anything in the Sea & Sea manual that explains the behavior and was hoping someone with more experience could shed light on this.

Do you have the ys-d2 in ds-ttl mode or slave ttl? What mode and flash setting on the tg-4?

What fiber optic cable are you using?

Have you tried manual mode, if so did it produce a similar after flash?

 

[MarkPi]

Yes, I am firing the YS-D2 with a fiber optic cable and it's attached to the PT-056 housing via PFCA-02 optical cable adaptor. I have noticed there a few nicks (can feel with fingertips) on the fiber optic cable sheathing from when I routed the cable through the fiber optic cable hook on the body of the YS-D2

 

[MarkPi]

Skeptic14,
I'm shooting in ds-ttl mode - Light Blue color on back panel
Flash setting is "SLV"
I am using a Sea and Sea Fiber Optic Cable II, 18".
Manual mode on the YS-D2 also produced similar flashes.

 

[deeper thoughts]

Here are a few wide angle macros( not all)

 

[Skeptic14]

Skeptic14,
I'm shooting in ds-ttl mode - Light Blue color on back panel
Flash setting is "SLV"
I am using a Sea and Sea Fiber Optic Cable II, 18".
Manual mode on the YS-D2 also produced similar flashes.

Have you tried setting your tg-4 to fill-in instead of slv?

 

[MarkPi]

No, I haven't tried that yet. I think I'll swap to a spare fiber optic cable first and then try the Fill-in setting. Thanks!

 

[Skeptic14]

Hopefully that's the only issue; The ys-01 doesn't sync as well with the tg-4 in ttl and you have to use the slv mode with remote flash settings but the ys-03 and ys-d2 seem to work seamlessly with the tg-4 simply using fillin.

 

[h2sk1]

Hopefully that's the only issue; The ys-01 doesn't sync as well with the tg-4 in ttl and you have to use the slv mode with remote flash settings but the ys-03 and ys-d2 seem to work seamlessly with the tg-4 simply using fillin.

I had a ys-01 that didn't work with the tg-4 in TTL, but I sent it in for a firmware upgrade. Unforunately that wasn't free, but with the latest firmware I can confirm that the TTL function works very well with the ys-01. I also have a ys-03 and as stated above, it does work because it uses newer firmware.