Godox question for Kathy Li

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Kathy, I regard you as the CIC expert on Godox flash equipment!

If I am using a Godox Sony Trigger, will a non-Sony Godox TTL flash allow TTL with a Sony mirrorless camera.

Specifically, would I be able to get TTL with my Godox (Flashpoint) TTL360C if I were to mount my Godox Sony XT Pro transmitter on my A6500.

I know that I can use the combination in manual mode. Also, will the combination allow HSS in Manual Mode?

[inkista]

Kathy, I regard you as the CIC expert on Godox flash equipment!

If I am using a Godox Sony Trigger, will a non-Sony Godox TTL flash allow TTL with a Sony mirrorless camera.

Specifically, would I be able to get TTL with my Godox (Flashpoint) TTL360C if I were to mount my Godox Sony XT Pro transmitter on my A6500.

If you mean a TT350C as slave, it may not work. My TT350-O would only fire at full power in TTL with my TT685C as the on-camera transmitter on my 5DMkII. M power control and HSS work, though. When I emailed Flashpoint support, I was told that the TT350 is not designed for cross-brand TTL switching. However, on dpreview, a bunch of folks have successfully gotten TTL with their TT350 cross-brand with other combinations. And I think I'm getting TTL with my XPro-F on the X100T with the TT350-O, so it depends. You're just going to have to test it yourself to see.

There is the added wrinkle that the -S system seems to have an issue with underexposure in TTL with wider aperture settings. This, btw, is not limited to Godox gear, but also seems to be affecting Jinbei's RT gear (which I think supports Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fuji; my suspicions are with the Jinbei gear, that the TR-Q6/TR-Q7 triggers can actually use two separate triggering systems: one that's Canon RT compatible, and one that's cross-brand and Jinbei's proprietary system).

I do, however, use a TT685-C with TTL, HSS, and remote power control from all three of my XPros (-C/-F/-O), so it looks like the TT685/V860II works across all the systems. (Well, the V860II works across all the systems, the TT685 hasn't yet received a Pentax P-TTL firmware update).

Also, will the combination allow HSS in Manual Mode?

It should, but again, I couldn't tell you for sure 100%, since I don't shoot Sony. My experience with Godox's Fuji gear has messed up my ability to say you'll get HSS with all combinations with any authority. My TT600 gives HSS to my XPro-C and XPro-O, but not my Xpro-F (headdesk).

One other thing to be aware of, while the Sony multi-interface hotshoe is supposed to be ISO-compliant, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. Not everything that fits in a standard ISO hotshoe is going to work with the MI hotshoe. There's a reason Godox has a separate TT600S variant for the MI hotshoe. Godox's TTL gear for Sony all uses the MI foot, so no issues there, but any manual-only triggering gear you're expecting to use with the MI hotshoe (like, say, YN-603II triggers) may not behave the way you expect. Sony's love of proprietary connectors strikes again.