Hi , SL2-S with Godox AD 600 pro and X Pro II L

[Pelu2010]

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Hey, 

 

just that you all know :

 

works like a sharm. 

 

With TLL and with HSS. 

 

cheers 

[Pelu2010]

 

This was shot with 1/40 and the dust on the glasses is sharp 🙂

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More sharp dust on there glasses but with 1/2000

As I cannot see what the camera does its just by accident that the eyes are sharp. 

But on the other hand this was not a sharpness test. I just wanted to see if the Godox trigger and strobe works. 

And I can say that it makes a beautiful light. 

And this was the Dish with the honeycomb just for the reference. 

I personally think that Godox is ready for Leica. 

 

 

So let's go out and generate nice images. 

 

cheers Peter 

[Harpomatic]

Hi @Pelu2010, thanks for posting.

I can confirm the X Pro II L works well.

Do you also find it impossible to shoot frames with flash faster than ~1 per second? It’s so frustrating for me, I can’t shoot 2-3 frames quickly at events/weddings.

[Mikko Kankainen]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/itbhdklgdoakyfo/IMG_0369.MOV?dl=0

 

It works ok at least for me. It looks like in video that it misses flashes at the end but it fires every time. Fasted than 1/sec for sure.

[Pelu2010]

It’s not as fast as without strobe, but if the strobe is 1/4 or less and the camera is on 1/250 or higher then it shoot quit frequently. 

[Harpomatic]

@Mikko Kankainen thank you kindly for the video, I appreciate it!

Ok, I overestimated the times at 1 second and it appears you manage 7 shots in around 3.5 seconds, which makes it 2 frames per second.

Shooting during weddings I manages up to four frames per second in single shot mode, and on the Sony system the flash keeps up with no problems, Godox and Nissin makes no difference.

If you set the X Pro II L to “legacy hotshoe” in the menu, which is single pin, it does keep up. If you use TTL it slows down to what you show.

This means that I am limited by the camera when shooting a moment, and cannot shoot as usual if using flash. For no understandable reason.

It’s the Leica protocol that slows everything down.

 

[Harpomatic]

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2 hours ago, Pelu2010 said:

It’s not as fast as without strobe, but if the strobe is 1/4 or less and the camera is on 1/250 or higher then it shoot quit frequently. 

Is it not slowing you down in a portrait/fashion/event/wedding session?

[Pelu2010]

Hey, 

I never was used this high speeds of shooting people. Only for commercial work. 

But then the models do a very good job of having the right face. 

Maybe you are dealing with a special purpose here. I never shot that fast people as it so fast, 

that I can't talk to them and if I can't talk they don't look good. 

Have you send an email to the Leica support? 

In order to make the products better, we need to address them to Leica. 

 

[Photoworks]

19 hours ago, Harpomatic said:

@Mikko Kankainen thank you kindly for the video, I appreciate it!

Ok, I overestimated the times at 1 second and it appears you manage 7 shots in around 3.5 seconds, which makes it 2 frames per second.

Shooting during weddings I manages up to four frames per second in single shot mode, and on the Sony system the flash keeps up with no problems, Godox and Nissin makes no difference.

If you set the X Pro II L to “legacy hotshoe” in the menu, which is single pin, it does keep up. If you use TTL it slows down to what you show.

This means that I am limited by the camera when shooting a moment, and cannot shoot as usual if using flash. For no understandable reason.

It’s the Leica protocol that slows everything down.

 

pre flash camera reading. That is when you use the SF60 on the camera too

[FrankX]

I know from my Godox X-Pro for Fuji that my Fuji cameras automatically switch to TTL mode (using a pre-flash to meter) even when the trigger is set to manual. This slows down frames per second considerably! Fortunately, this effect can be avoided by using the camera's TTL-lock feature as a workaround (still annoying). Probably, we observe the same effect here with the Leica SL2?!

@Harpomatic However, my expectations were that it works at least with the original SF60 flash in non-TTL modes, e. g. manual mode. I think you mentioned it does not work quicker with Leica SF60 even in manual mode in another thread. Right?! 😏

Edited April 25, 2023 by FrankX

[Harpomatic]

6 hours ago, Photoworks said:

pre flash camera reading. That is when you use the SF60 on the camera too

 

4 hours ago, FrankX said:

I know from my Godox X-Pro for Fuji that my Fuji cameras automatically switch to TTL mode (using a pre-flash to meter) even when the trigger is set to manual. This slows down frames per second considerably! Fortunately, this effect can be avoided by using the camera's TTL-lock feature as a workaround (still annoying). Probably, we observe the same effect here with the Leica SL2?!

@Harpomatic However, my expectations were that it works at least with the original SF60 flash in non-TTL modes, e. g. manual mode. I think you mentioned it does not work quicker with Leica SF60 even in manual mode in another thread. Right?! 😏

Thanks for your replies.

 

I am fully aware of pre-flash reading but there is no TTL in this case, I'm shooting fully manual!

[Leica-M-Q]

A quick addendum: for the AD600 PRO to actually check this, it needs at least firmware 1.7. The current one is 1.9.

My flash still had 1.1 (it was purchased many years ago), which meant it was out of the question for the Godox L II Pro – at least for HSS. This surprised me a lot recently, since the V1 and AD100 work without any problems.

The Godox update for the AD600 Pro is quite annoying when using a Mac. The Godox Launcher v2 is apparently only available for Windows. I had to try it today on a Windows 11 computer. And here, too: driver problems during installation (first, I had to remove system protection for installation, and later, it couldn't be reactivated because the driver was considered unsafe, etc.). In the end, it worked, but it was really messy and time-consuming.

Edited April 18 by Leica-M-Q
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