S-Turtle Smart TTL trigger

Phil Rudin · Issue 110, Sep/Oct 2019 · pp. 41–46

Products mentioned: TRT-Electronics S-Turtle Smart TTL trigger, TRT-Electronics E-Turtle Smart, TRT-Electronics I-Turtle Smart, TRT-Electronics O-Turtle Smart, Nauticam NA-A7R III housing, Sony A7R III, Sony FE 12-24mm F/4, Sony 90mm F/2.8 macro, Nauticam SMC-1, Inon Z-240, Inon Z-330, Inon Z-220, Sea&Sea YS-D1, Sea&Sea YS-D2, Sea&Sea YS-110a, Sea&Sea YS250, Subtronic Pro 160, Subtronic Pro 270, Ikelite strobes

TRT-Electronics is a Hungarian company that designs what they call a “quartet” of Turtle TTL converters for underwater photographers. The product line includes TTL-flash triggers for Canon, Nikon, Olympus/ Panasonic and Sony cameras. These TTL converters can be triggered via sync cords or fiber optic cables. Each trigger is color coded by brand, Red E-turtle Smart for Canon, Blue I-Turtle Smart for Nikon, Green O-Turtle Smart for Olympus/ Panasonic and Yellow S-turtle Smart for Sony. Each of the four different TTL- converters come in two styles. One has the hotshoe directly on the bottom of the trigger for larger housings and the other has a separate hotshoe connected by wiring to the trigger for smaller housings that don’t have the room for the trigger above the camera. For my review I have been testing the yellow S-Turtle Smart TTL trigger for larger housings using the Nauticam NA-A7R …