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Hey Joel Great to have you with us. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Best wishes

Hi Pidan A warm welcome to Waterpixels. We hope you really enjoy the forum. Good to know you too! Best wishes

When I made my first batch - which led to the original article - I used scissors. The cables worked perfectly in Manual with my Retra strobes. But not in TTL (which I rarely use). It was a conversation with Oskar at Retra that highlighted that scissor cuts were the issue. I recut using a box cutter (aka Stanley knife) and the TTL issue was solved.

Darn. Really sorry, Toque. Rich is pursuing......

Brilliant offer from Dave! I’d suggest not asking him to cut the cables for you. Play around with the setup first and get a feel for how long the cables need to be in use. It’s very easy to cut them at a later date.

Have you tried dropping Subal an email and getting advice from them? Harald, the owner, is pretty helpful.

Hi Toque Sorry about that! I can’t see any obvious reason and will ask Rich to take a look.

Getting hold of this cable seems a regular problem. Seems impossible to find in Europe too. If you know someone in the US who could get it shipped to them from the US supplier then mail it to you in Canada..... could that work?

Hi Anton! We’re delighted you’ve jumped back in. A warm welcome to Waterpixels. Best wishes

Hi The Subal system doesn’t use diopters to adjust the viewfinder optics. You need to adjust the diopter that’s on the camera and then just for the housing into the camera. There are no diopter adjustments on Subal viewfinder. And yes, you need a zoom ring to change a zoom setting. Autofocus changes the focussing do you don’t need a ring for that. For the zoom ring check out Subal.com. There are number of folks on this forum who print their own zoom rings using 3D printing. If you have the right camera in the right housing the main controls should line up perfectly. If they don’t it could be that the camera isn’t aligned quite right on the sledge. Occasionally you might get slight misalignments on a control or two which might require minor adjustments on a control rod. But such adjustments are, by my experience, not common on Subal housings. It’d be a bit like adjusting a Rolls Royce 😝 Another possibility is that you need to remove the rubber eyepiece on the camera before closing the housing and/or remove and kind of screen protector. Hope these help!

Me too!

Welcome to Waterpixels, SwiftS! Good to have you with us. Do start a new post and we’ll do our best to help you. I’m a Subal owner myself…. Love them! Best wishes

And here’s one of the dilemmas of u/w photography. I think we’ve all been there: don’t want to spend big bucks, compromise, get more experienced and….. then realise you should have spent the big bucks. Argh. Not easy. But if it’s any consolation, which it isn’t of course, you’re not alone.

Once you are sure the screw is as unscrewed as it can go, it’s just a case of pulling with a gentle twisting motion. You’ll get there! Maybe regrease the o-rings when you next put them back on.