Can a Godox XPro-S trigger TTL on a Canon 600EX-RT via X1R-C?

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I’ve moved from Canon to a Sony A7R IV and want to keep using my Canon 600EX-RT off-camera. My setup is a Godox XPro-S on the Sony and the 600EX-RT mounted on a Godox X1R-C receiver.

This setup fires the flash in manual mode, but TTL does not work correctly: the flash fires, yet exposure stays very low and flash exposure compensation does not seem to change the output. The same 600EX-RT and X1R-C work properly in TTL when used with a Canon camera and XPro-C.

Does the XPro-S support TTL with an X1R-C receiver, or is this combination limited to manual triggering/power control only?

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No. While the X1R-C and XPro-S are compatible in terms of firing and possibly M power control, the Godox X1R receivers do not perform cross-brand TTL in the way the built-in radio transceivers in the Godox TTL full-sized speedlights (TT685, V860II, V1) do.

If, say, you were to purchase a Godox TT685-C and checked its firmware version was v3.1 or later, you could use it off-camera as a radio slave in TTL with the XPro-S. I use one that way with an XPro‑C on my 5DMkII, my XPro-F on my Fuji X100T, and my Xpro-O on my Panasonic GX7.

Obviously, however, trading in your 600EX-RT for a TT685-S, V860II-S, or V1-S, if you've moved completely to Sony would make more sense, so you could have a speedlight that did TTL/HSS on-camera as well as off-camera. Keep in mind, there is a known bug with Godox and Sony that TTL underexposes if used with wider-than-f/4 aperture settings. So, sticking with M and using, say, super-cheap $65 TT600 or TT600S single-pin manual speedlights may be another option to consider.

Alternatively, don't use Godox as your triggering system. Cactus's V6II transceivers can do cross-brand TTL in their X-TTL system.

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No—this combination is not a reliable way to get cross-brand TTL. The XPro-S can trigger the X1R-C, and manual firing/power control may work, but the X1R receivers do not provide cross-brand TTL the way some Godox speedlights with built-in radio do.

So your results are expected: with a Sony XPro-S and Canon X1R-C/600EX-RT, TTL exposure won’t function properly even though the flash fires.

If you want TTL off-camera with the XPro-S, use a Godox TTL speedlight that supports cross-brand radio TTL as a slave, such as a TT685, V860II, or V1 (with suitable firmware/version support). If you’ve fully switched to Sony, the most practical path is usually a Sony-compatible Godox flash so you also get proper on-camera TTL/HSS.

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