OPTIMA underwater strobe has the following features:
- Best TTL accuracy. TTL control system inside the strobe is created by the leading manufacturer of TTL systems on the market, – Underwater Technics company. All original TTL Converters contain TTL-profile specially developed for OPTIMA strobe support.
- Best HSS quality on the market. It allows shooting at shutter speeds up to 1/8000s without banding (!) on the image, – provided by the new methods of HSS control. Patent pending.
- Circular shape flash tube provides a very uniform lighting on the whole area of the shot, especially in combination with the spherical dome.
- Spherical dome is made of ultra-high temperature optical plastic. It has an anti-reflective coating of inner surface, just like the best optical dome ports.
- Extremely fast strobe recycling – 0.8 sec (after full flash dump).
- Flash light beam angle underwater – 140 degrees.
- Flash modes switching by the strobe knob: “TTL”, “HSS”, “M’.
- Intellectual flash control by camera menu via UWTechnics TTL-Converter, including “Flash Exposure Compensation (+/-)”, “Front/Rear curtain sync”, “Slow sync”, “TTL”, “HSS sync”, “M” (also available M flash power adjustment via camera scale / controls).
- Continuous (“serial”) shooting (under UWTechnics TTL-Converter control).
- “Multi-Flash” shooting at slow-speed synchronization (under UWTechnics TTL-Converter control.)
- Body and all parts are made of hard-anodized aluminum alloy,
- Flash power 160 Ws, Color Temperature 5500K,
- Pilot / focusing light 600 lumen with Auto-Off function during the flash. It also can be used as a comfortable torch for the night dive.
- Professional Video-light 18000 lumen, true colors CRI 92, Color Temperature 5000K.
- Video-light working time (at 18000 lumen): 45 minutes with large battery (8 cell), 18 minutes with small battery (4-cell).
- Logarithmic scale of video-light flux adjustment, which has advantages for professional video and human eye perception.
- Video-light adjustment range: 0….18000 lumen (8 steps).
- Video-light beam angle underwater – 140 degrees.
- Battery construction: 4 x 18650 cells (small battery), 8 x 18650 cells (large battery), including cell Balancing and Protection electronics.
- Battery compartment screw cover sealing has a dual o-ring.
- Battery compartment is internally sealed from the electronics of the strobe.
- Battery level indicator on the strobe body.
- Protection Valve on the strobe body, – for safe Li-ion battery usage.
- Original traveling case has recesses for 2 spare batteries.
- Strobe weight (including standard battery) in air – 1.2 kg
- Strobe weight (including standard battery) in fresh water – 0.2 kg.
- Bayonet front mount, – for snoot, color filters, reflectors and other external accessories.
- Optional External Reflector (with bayonet mount) provides more narrow beam angle,- for different shooting tasks.
- Optical Snoot, External Reflector and Color Filters exist in the production plan in 2025.
OPTIMA-10000 Underwater Strobe and Videolight by uw-technics
- Flash power: 160 Ws
- Color Temperature 5500K
- Pilot / focusing light: 600 lumen with Auto-Off function
- Professional Video-light: 18000 lumen, true colors CRI 92, Color Temperature 5000K.
- Video-light working time (at 18000 lumen): 45 minutes with large battery (8 cell), 18 minutes with small battery (4-cell).
- Recycling time: 0.8 sec (after full flash dump).
- Flash light beam angle underwater: 140 degrees.
- Flash modes switching by the strobe knob: “TTL”, “HSS”, “M’.
- weight (including standard battery) in air: 1.2 kg
- weight (including standard battery) in fresh water: 0.2 kg
