Howdy folks...
Strobes must be in TTL mode.
Must turn controller on first.
Controller passes preflash signals to strobes.
Strobes working correctly emit multiple flashes (preflash).
All tests performed with Nikon camera bodies and N version Controllers.
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Cheers,
Berkley White
Backscatter
http://www.backscatter.com
831-645-1082
Berkley,
Thanks. But one conundrum here. Sea and Sea 110 strobes as you know can only be put on TTL by turning on and past manual 1 and 2 first.....
So controller on first, this I do, but Strobes in TTL before that, can't do on S & S 110s.
So is it correct sequence for Sea and Sea 110s?
1. Turn Sea and Sea Type II controller on
2. Turn 110 strobes on and all the way to TTL?
My "new" (4th one tried) Sea and Sea TTL converter II seems to be working now with Subal ND20/S & S 110s/Nikon d200, I'll try it out on macro u/w in a week or so. Wide angle was so-so, but changing ambient light with manatee is a little too much to ask for any TTL system I think. Still it wasn't horrid - but yesterday I quit testing out the unit and used the manual bypass - thank goodness for manual bypass!!
Hi Carol, thank you.
..............The most difficult is to arrive to have good results when subjects are a bit war away, the TTL could not read the light very well and make some big exposure errors, for this reasons i will be use it in manual mode but i will continue my tests.
It's a big pleasure to look at your new photos of Manatees, i love very much your web pages. Last summer i was making photos to a Dugong in Marsa Alam (Egypt) I found this animal so sweet and with a big personality. Looking to your pages my interest into Manatee is growing up and i would come in Florida in the good season for Manatee to use my new TTL CONVERTER II. :-)
It will be a good time to take a look to manatees and to see the defferences between these animals and the Dugong. Here some shot of Dughy the gently Dugond of Abu Dabab (Marsa Alam Egypt). For the moment this dive site is not protected and to much divers and snorkellers come to see Dughy and sometimes with no respect... i hope that very soon Adu Dabab become a little protected area, we must protect Dugons like you protect Manatees in Florida.
I hope your wideangle shots with TTL CONVERTER will be very good, i'm waiting for new good pictures of Manatees, shots Carol and publish your new pictures pls. :-)
PS: i'm waiting to test the new Ys-250 with TTL CONVERTER.... good luck! :-)
Using SEA&SEA TTL converter with no Sea&Sea Housing: i will be a good idea to make a little compatibility table to put on line...so maybe all people using converter with no Sea&Sea housing are invited to post and give us more informations. A good idea, i think, to help UW photographers.
Many thanks and sorry for my poor english
ERIK
www.erikhenchoz.com
And Erik,
Yes thanks, new TTL II seems to be working now, but manual is better for drastic changing light w/manatee.
I'll write up a whole thing soon on the manatee here again and the challenges facing them and seeing them in Florida. I think it is still important people get to see them and interact up-close on a limited basis per protocal but Fish and Wildlife will be imposing new and stricter regulations to limit too many people at a time wanting to see manatee. In the meantime as I always tell people the responsible way to go see manatee is go during the week during slower times and never, ever on weekends or holidays.
At the proper times it is magical and the manatee really seem to take interest in the experience. Manatee are actually naturally curious. I observed young ones playing "bump" in the current that flows out in a particular channel yesterday. It is a real "game" but also must be an "exercise" for flipper and swimming dexterity and maneuverability. They would swim up into current, play-around back and forth and then all of a (obviously on-purpose...) suddenly stop swimming and get swept back and "bump" into each other - and sometimes "accidently" bump sleeping adult manatee (and even me at times.....). B)
There is a new manatee book out now by a person who worked with and pioneered manatee research for 25 years, mostly at Crystal River, FL, just north of where I live. It is not a manatee picture book but should be read by all who are interested. It has data never listed before on manatee eyesight, lifestyle, etc etc etc from someone who knows!!! It is at Amazon here and is an amazing book. I'll re-post in an appropriate thread also, sorry to get off-topic but I do love sirenians so!!!
http://www.amazon.co...n/dp/081302949XI'll keep posted on how the Sea & Sea TTL II unit keeps working with 110 strobes.
Thanks, Carol
