Flash compatibility woes

[ski542002]

Recently took delivery of the Hasselblad X2D II 100C body and 2 lenses. LOVE the kit.

I have many Sony compatible Godox & Flashpoint strobes, including the wireless Godox X3-S Trigger, and the Flashpoint R2PRO2S trigger.

I purchased the NIKON COMPATIBLE Godox X3-S Trigger, because in part my dealer told me this NIKON COMPATIBLE TRIGGER will fire my SONY COMPATIBLE Flashpoint strobes on the Hasselblad. I heard yes, the last time I checked early 2025. Sadly, this was incorrect.

The x2d II DOES see the mounted flash because I see the flash icon in the screen. As a matter of fact if I touch the icon, I immediately see the flash exposure slider, which works. BUT flash does not fire.

I have 000’s of $$ in the Flashpoint/Godox system and do NOT want to start anew with Profoto. Right now, I’m feeling my great X2d II without strobe support (especially the leaf shutters) is frustratingly lacking in capability. The ONLY short term option I see is buying an old-school hot-shoe dongle; plug it into a Pocket Wizard radio and fire off camera, using the now archane radio slave system. Have not shot that way in well over a decade! 3 of my flashpoint strobes have a legacy setting, so that’d work I think?

Any positive/negative suggestions/solutions would be most appreciated!

 

[Patrick]

I have the Godox it32 with the X5N trigger - N for Nikon, because the X2Dii flash shoe is Nikon based. I recently found that ON camera the flash works just fine with TTL but off camera its manual, I got it for the Nikon, so fr me, that it works on camera with the X2Dii os a bit of a bonus.

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[ski542002]

hello. I appreciate the information and I did purchase the Godox unit with the Nikon module.

I am fairly confident it will work with x2D. It would be beneficial if it would also trigger my off camera Godox flash units but if not I can set the off camera flash to legacy and hopefully the Nikon flash will have enough power to trigger my units set to legacy only. That would relegate them to being dumb manual flash units but I can control the manual flash output from the off camera flash itself.

If nothing works Amazon easy return policy will make this a fairly low cost test

 

[ski542002]

And, I will let you know one way or another the outcome.

 

[boojum]

delete

 

[neilaberdeenphoto]

Recently took delivery of the Hasselblad X2D II 100C body and 2 lenses. LOVE the kit.

I have many Sony compatible Godox & Flashpoint strobes, including the wireless Godox X3-S Trigger, and the Flashpoint R2PRO2S trigger.

I purchased the NIKON COMPATIBLE Godox X3-S Trigger, because in part my dealer told me this NIKON COMPATIBLE TRIGGER will fire my SONY COMPATIBLE Flashpoint strobes on the Hasselblad. I heard yes, the last time I checked early 2025. Sadly, this was incorrect.

The x2d II DOES see the mounted flash because I see the flash icon in the screen. As a matter of fact if I touch the icon, I immediately see the flash exposure slider, which works. BUT flash does not fire.

I have 000’s of $$ in the Flashpoint/Godox system and do NOT want to start anew with Profoto. Right now, I’m feeling my great X2d II without strobe support (especially the leaf shutters) is frustratingly lacking in capability. The ONLY short term option I see is buying an old-school hot-shoe dongle; plug it into a Pocket Wizard radio and fire off camera, using the now archane radio slave system. Have not shot that way in well over a decade! 3 of my flashpoint strobes have a legacy setting, so that’d work I think?

Any positive/negative suggestions/solutions would be most appreciated!

Profoto works really well with the X2D so I would suggest selling the Godox, and invest in Profoto. Having used both systems, apart from compatibility, Profoto is much more consistent, and higher quality than Godox

 

[boojum]

OK, tested the Godox It32 TTL on camera and off. Looks the same to me.

 

[ski542002]

Profoto works really well with the X2D so I would suggest selling the Godox, and invest in Profoto. Having used both systems, apart from compatibility, Profoto is much more consistent, and higher quality than Godox

I agree with your mindset , except for the quality issue. I have never had problems with Godox/Flashpoint, and at a much lower price point than Profoto.

At this stage in my career I’m not selling a system that would return barely pennies on the dollar. I qualify to lease $100,000 worth of equipment, but I’m not going down that rabbit hole again.

Been there done that, not going to happen.

 

[Patrick]

I did write to Godox - since they just released a trigger for Leica, the X5L - I asked if they would release one for the Hasselblad since TTL doesn't work off camera. I works on camera.
No reply yet ( mailed 5th March)

 

[ski542002]

˜Yes, I’m a dumbass

Took delivery of my new shiny x2d II about a week ago. Overall a fantastic piece of kit, other than familiarization confusion with the new menu system. Coming from Sony, once I got the hang of the x2D, the Sony looks almost impossible!

I was cranking about confusion over NOT being able to get my Godox/Flashpoint Sony spec’d strobes to fire when I have a Godox hot-shoe trigger mounted. Trolled for hours on various sites, with everyone telling me it doesn’t work, except for my dealer that praised the flash integration.

Well, like I said, dumbass… my electronic shutter was somehow reenabled. Now I know what the “E” means in the LCD. Having been a digital shooter since the beginning, I am well aware of the few benefits and massive pitfalls of using e-shutter. I disabled e-shutter immediately, and given how it’s buried in the menus, don’t know how I turned it back on. Even shot my first ever architectural assignment yesterday (with this new toy). Available light, F16 from 2 to 10 seconds, which didn’t hurt the e-shutter.

My Godox/Flashpoint strobes now fire remotely, as expected. I DID on the advice of a respondent in this thread, purchase the Godox IT32 TTL Camera Flash for Nikon with X5N Trigger for times when I just need an on-camera kicker for a quick PR gig.

Finally, very excited. Now need to start saving $$$ for another 1 or 2 lenses!