{"id":20263,"date":"2025-01-09T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwphoto.onpressidium.com\/news\/sea-sea-launches-new-ys-d3-duo-in-white\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:34:51","slug":"sea-sea-launches-new-ys-d3-duo-in-white","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/news\/sea-sea-launches-new-ys-d3-duo-in-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluewater announces the launch of their new White Sea &#038; Sea YS-D3 Duo Underwater Strobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluewaterphotostore.com\/sea-sea-ys-d3-duo-strobe\/\" title=\"ys-d3 duo\">Sea &amp; Sea YS-D3 DUO<\/a> is a high-specification underwater strobe with three shooting modes: DS-TTL, RC mode, and manual. The YS-D3 DUO delivers even and uniform light distribution with a large light output of GN33, similar to the most popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluewaterphotostore.com\/sea-sea-ys-d3-strobe\" title=\"ys-d3 ii underwater strobe\">YS-D3II<\/a>. Custom settings allow the strobe to be used with high precision with a variety of cameras and shooting styles. This popular underwater strobe has always only been available in a Black color, with either a gold or red stripe, but Sea &amp; Sea has now launched a standout white color, transforming this popular strobe into what appears to be simply a color variant with no difference internally. In fact, all &#8220;three color options&#8221; are simply that: color variants with the internal specifications all being the same.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-20262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duo_comparison.jpg\" alt=\"ys-d3 duo strobe\" width=\"800\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duo_comparison.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duo_comparison-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duo_comparison-768x252.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/duo_comparison-600x197.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Key Features of the YS-D3 Duo strobe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The newly developed aspherical troidal lens on the flash tubes provides even light dispersion; no hotspots are produced<\/li>\n<li>Native beam angle of 105 X 80 degrees with no diffuser<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;\">Wide beam angle of 120\u00b0 (with included diffuser) or even wider (150\u00b0) with the optional diffuser<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Battery life: 220 flashes with Ni-MH batteries (4X AA)<\/li>\n<li>Recycle time: 1.7 seconds at full power, 0.6 seconds at GN 22, no recycle time below GN 16!<\/li>\n<li>Color temperature: 5800K. 5500K with a diffuser<\/li>\n<li>Large capacity condensers<\/li>\n<li>Firing the strobes at Guide Number 16 the strobe can continuously fire without any interval time<\/li>\n<li>Two-stage signal &#8211; Visual and Audible notification that the strobe is ready to fire&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Has a pre-flash cancel mode<\/li>\n<li>Improved power of target light, which can be used as a dive light also. It is also adjustable in 2 steps<\/li>\n<li>Auto power off when the strobe is left turned on for a long time<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;\">Over pressure relieve valve<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We took these underwater strobes out for a test in the field in order to determine why they are so popular, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwphotographyguide.com\/sea-and-sea-ys-d3-duo-review\/\" title=\"YS-D3 Duo Review\">read our YS-D3 Duo field review<\/a> to gain more insights on how these strobes perform underwater.<\/p>\n<p>These popular strobes are available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluewaterphotostore.com\/sea-sea-ys-d3-duo-strobe\/\" title=\"Sea &amp; Sea YS-D3 Duo\">BluewaterPhoto Store in all 3 color variants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":20261,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"vocabulary_4":[69],"class_list":["post-20263","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","vocabulary_4-underwater-photography-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bluewater announces the launch of their new White Sea &amp; Sea YS-D3 Duo Underwater Strobe - Underwater Photography Guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The popular YS-D3 Duo strobe has always only been available in black. 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