Sea & Sea YS-D1 Strobe

Phil Rudin · Issue 69, Nov/Dec 2012 · pp. 29–30

Products mentioned: Sea & Sea YS-D1, Sea & Sea YS-110a, Inon Z-240, Olympus E-M5, Olympus 60mm macro lens, Panasonic 7-14mm zoom lens, Nauticam NA-EM5 housing

The newly designed Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe was one of the standout products at DEMA 2011 in Orlando, Florida. With an all new TTL system called DS-TTL II the YS-D1 becomes the worlds first slave TTL strobe equipped with an exposure compensation (EV) control. What this means too the photographer using two or more strobes is that while working in TTL using fiber optic cables a large number of +/- EV combinations can be set to create dramatic lighting ratios. You can also set the main light to DSTTL II and the secondary strobe(s) to manual and have the flexibility of 11 different steps of light from a guide number of 1 to a GN of 32. The revised algorithms of the DS- TTL II adjust the intervals between the pre flash and the main flash making the system compatible with a wide range of current and future digital cameras. The strobe is powered by four removable AA batteries contained in a rear …