Sea&Sea has announced an updated version of their YS-D3 strobe. The YS-D3 Mark II retains all the specifications of the original but adds compatibility and TTL accuracy with Sea&Sea and third-party strobe triggers. It also has redesigned control dials for output and mode controls.

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Strobes or flashguns are a crucial part of the systems that we as underwater photographers deploy. Judging by questions and comments on the Wetpixel Forum, they still represent a source go confusion for many people. Wetpixel Editor Adam Hanlon and regular contributor Alex Mustard attempt to demystify this, by offering some thoughts on strobe choices on Wetpixel Live.

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One of the “dark arts” that are required when you are choosing and setting up your underwater camera is to get your camera and strobes to communicate with each other. Adam Hanlon and Alex Mustard address this on Wetpixel Live, describing the current methods available and suggesting some ideas that will help ensure that your flashes fire when you press the shutter.

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Wetpixel offers the long awaited and definitive test of the Inon Z330, Retra Flash and Symbiosis SS2 strobes. Carried out over the past 6 weeks in the UK and in Egypt’s Red Sea, each strobe has been cycled several thousand times and used in as wide a variety of situations as possible. Inevitably, there will be some questions that remain unanswered so ,to discuss the results and the strobes further, check out the thread in the Wetpixel forum.

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