Controlling OCF Settings

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I'm currently experimenting with my OMD EM10 and 2 YN56II Speedlights triggered by a set of YN602's but its a real pain messing about the settings to change the Speedlight power until I get a setting I am happy with.
Is there any triggers that would let me adjust the power remotely or am I going to have to look at another option.

I am wanting these for on location portraits if that is relevant.

Cheers
 
There's no option to change the power remotely without new triggers and flashguns*.

However; if you get your head around your ratios and set the power based on that arbitrarily, you can adjust the 'power' from your camera simply by altering ISO/ aperture.

*Buy cheap ETTL flashguns and YN622tx /YN622s, or. Wait for the YN560tx and replace your 560s with mkIIIs.
 
I agree with Phil. Set a power on your flash that you think is right and alter settings in camera.

Either with a bigger or smaller aperture or changing the iso. Change the shutter speed accordingly depending on how much ambient light you want to include in your picture too.

BUT... not sure if the TTL flashes and triggers will work with Olympus?
 
Cheers Phil, I thought that might be the case.

I'm considering moving to one of the Bare Bulb flashes rather than upgrade my speedlights as I believe these are more controllable
 
minnnt said:
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BUT... not sure if the TTL flashes and triggers will work with Olympus?
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Oops.

Although, I do believe you can use the ETTL guns with manual control with the tx on an Olympus.
 
I found this video good


Explains with demonstration how you don't need to change the power of the flash, just how much of the flash power the camera sees.
 
Phil V said:
Wait for the YN560tx and replace your 560s with mkIIIs.
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The 560TX/MkIII strobes system works well for me with my OM-D E-M5. If you want ETTL on Oly then afaik you'll need to stick with Olympus flashes, using the mini commander flash or FL600R on camera and similar Olympus flashes off-camera. That system uses IR comms, which is ok inside in a controlled environment but a bit hit-and-miss elsewhere.
 
Watched the vid, very helpful. Still got lots to learn it would seem. More practice required!
 
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