The image is completely overexposed due to the light from the YN560-III. In this case, I set the YN560-III in S1 mode. So the two slave mode S1 and S2 of the YN560-III will work exactly the same.
#Yongnuo yn 560 iii nikon manual#
Since I set the Metz 50AF-1 in manual mode, there is no TTL preflash fired. The difference between them is that in S2 mode, the TTL preflash is ignored. The YN560-III has two optical slave modes: S1 and S2. Then I repeat the above shootings with the YN560-III turned on and set to FULL POWER. At the shutter speed of 1/8000s, there is almost no effect from the Metz 50AF-1. When I increase the shutter speed, the power of the Metz 50AF-1 drops out severely. At 1/320s, the output at 1/128 power of the Metz 50AF-1 is quite weak but we can see clearly its effect on the image. The YN560-III is placed in front of the camera with its optical slave sensor facing the head of the Metz 50AF-1.Īt first the YN560-III is turned off to see the impact of the Metz 50AF-1 only. The power of the Metz 50AF-1 is set to minimum power (i.e. I attach the Metz 50AF-1, which is a flash capable of HSS, on the Nikon D700.
#Yongnuo yn 560 iii nikon how to#
Yes, we can! I did make the YN560-III sync at the shutter speed 1/8000s and now I show you how to do that. So can we use the above method for studio strobe to make the YN560-III sync faster than 1/320s? Like the studio strobe, the YN560-III doesn’t support HSS, but it has a really sensitive built-in optical slave trigger inheriting from YN560. When being attached to Nikon D700, the YN560-III syncs at a maximum speed of 1/320s. That is how he made a studio strobe sync at 1/8000s. Then he turned the optical slave on and finally got a bright and clean image. Obviously at such high speed sync and small power, the flash itself had no effect to the image, but it still can trigger the optical slave of the studio strobe. In the experiment, he set the SB900, which is a flash supporting HSS, at the lowest power and fired it at 1/8000s. There is the way that Callum Winton has used to do HSS with studio strobe. These are ways that most people know and use for off-camera HSS. Two of them are related to a flash capable of HSS which will be remotely triggered by either a pair of radio trigger supporting HSS, or another flash supporting HSS in master mode. When it comes to off-camera, there are three ways to do HSS. But who cares about on-camera flash for strobist? In other words, there’s no way to do HSS on-camera with YN560-III. The simple, but unique way to do HSS on-camera is using a flash with HSS capability. There are two basis ways to use flash: on-camera and off-camera. For me and those who love YN560s for strobist, the only thing missing in these cheap flashes is High Speed Sync (HSS) capability.