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Yeah, I agree with Chris. I do wonder though if a Z220/240 might be a little harder to find now.

Great to have you with us, reefrunner. Welcome to Waterpixels.

I’ve just been in Sri Lanka and now understand why the EU has mandated that plastic bottle tops must be attached so they cannot be separated from the bottle. The amount of bottle tops I collected on a beach was depressing. Plastic everywhere.

Is it the pages or has time just slowed down in the Maldives ?? Thanks! We’ll check…..

Yeah, I think a triple clamp would be the most simple solution. The only issue might be that if you adjust, say, the GoPro by slackening the triple screw, the light may well shift too. But you can probably manage this with a bit of practice.

🤣 I’m delighted to not feel alone in the Old and Stupid club. They are great strobes though so our decision-making powers remain top notch.

Yep, I’d say so.

Insert word next needed “essential “ item.

LOL! Been there, felt stupid…… as Chris says, it’s flippable.

Apologies!

I've just moved from the Nikon Z6 to a Nikon Z6III and have an L-bracket for sale (it won't fit the Z6III) It's produced by 3-Legged Thing, made of aluminium, incredibly light-weight, ARCA-Swiss mounts, tough as old boots, looks brand new (that's high quality aluminium for you) and fits the Z6/Z7 perfectly allowing access to all the various ports. Looking for €60/£55 and happy to include shipping in the UK or EU

Just as an update: I've contacted my mate in the US to see if she could hand-carry the cable when we meet for the Red Sea trip. She can't let me know for the moment but we agreed she'd confirm one way or another by mid-Sept. I've checked i-fibreoptics and they do have the 613 cable in stock and say they can ship with 24-48 hours of ordering. So far I have EU/UK requests from: @Joerg Malke 4m to Germany @makar0n 4-6m to Belgium @Michael 12m to Germany @CaolIla 10m to France If I have missed anyone, please yell! I'm leaving @stiebs and @humu9679 to order for themselves as including them in a bulk order doesn't make much sense. (But if you DO want including, just say! If folks don't want to wait to see if my mate can help out as delivery-girl, @fruehaufsteher2 has also kindly offered to act as postbox. Costs would be subject to German import duties/taxes and higher shipping fees. A couple of folks have said they'd like cable depending on the price. As I hope folks can understand, that's a very difficult thing to pin down. The cable costs $7.50 a metre plus shipping. If my mate in the US can deliver to me in the Red Sea, then mail costs from me to EU "clients" will be minimal. A couple of Euros. So maybe around $9-$10 a metre in total. But if it needs to be mailed from the US to the EU and then packaged and shipped onwards, then costs may double with duties/taxes etc. I can only assure folks that, same as the last time we did this, I would only pass on the actual costs involved and will happily produce a breakdown. This is not profit-making venture! I'm sure @fruehaufsteher2 would take the same approach. What I do ask though, please, is that if you say you want x metres, then you are committed. I don't actually need cable so don't want to end up with loads of it should anyone decide because of price or whatever, they no longer want it.......

It’s good to have dreams, Chris!

I’m not expert enough to be able to judge between different types of fibre optic cable. Based on my own experiences, if you’re shooting manual and your strobes have good sensors, then any Toslink-type cable seems to work. It just gets more sensitive if you use TTL. On the bend radius, this depends on what type of plugs you use. If the L-shaped ones that I highlighted, then a cable capable of bending easily, like the 613, is important. But if you’re going to use a straight plug, the bendability issue becomes less significant. I’ve found that, other than how the fibre plugs into the bulkhead, bending the cable is not an important factor. There’s unlikely to be serious bending of the cable en route to the strobes. Plugging in to the strobes is also unlikely to need major bends.

No, indeed. The Kenko TC1.4 is pretty much the go-to gizmo for getting CFWA. Are Kenko missing a trick!?

Good to have you with us! A warm welcome to Waterpixels.

Wow, the effects of a nice evening in Dharavandoo, eh? Good for you, mate. Enjoy! Bummer on those dead cables though. I hope you have spares. Thanks on this. I'm just seeing if I can get this into the EU hand-carried. If not, I'll come back to you. T

Noted! That's a lot of cable, Michael!

If you want cable and you're in the US, you can just order it directly. Easy-peasy. The problem is for folks on this side of the Atlantic where this cable just doesn't seem to be available. So a bulk order makes sense for them/us. You can order here: https://i-fiberoptics.com/fiber-detail-asahi.php?id=3360&sum=166

It’s a good idea, makar0n and probably cheaper than via NL. But @fruehaufsteher2 said he can’t manage onward distribution. I’ve organised a Red Sea dive trip for October on which a number of US residents are joining. Hmmm….. wonder if I could ask one of them to bring it in their baggage. Weighs nothing……. I’ll explore. Your 4-6m noted.

Hey! Those patch cords on your Indo link look very much like Toslink cable. This works fine if not quite as good as the Ashai 613. But for non-TTL video lights should be just fine. Just cut off the plugs, cut to length, jam into the plugs - and you should be good to go. On the "Sea&Sea plugs", just check what kind of bulkhead opening you have. All the ones I've mentioned above are bog-standard and more than likely the same as you would use on your housing. You can always rig up a way of jamming your cables into the bulkheads. Tape them to thicken them out, for example. This is not rocket science nor, usually, does it have to be super precise for non-TTL work.

Guys Can I check who actually wants cable before getting rolling with this? So far I have only heard from @Joerg Malke and @stiebs. No other takers??? I don't really need any myself so if there's only one person in the EU and one in Aus, then a bulk order becomes a bit pointless. No bulk, no order?

Hey Saudio! Welcome to Waterpixels. Great to have you with us. We hope you really enjoy the forum and get lots from it.

Each to his own, of course. But unless you've tried FEs on a wreck and really don't like the results, I wouldn't write them off. Depending how you use it, of course, it's rare that an FE distorts a wreck to such an extent that it becomes obvious because it's rare that wreck images have so many obviously straight lines (weird though that may sound). There are loads of superb wreck pics where an FE was used and you'd be hard pushed to spot that. They have the advantage too of being relatively inexpensive and can be used in small domes: great for transportation and manoeuvre in the water. But, as I say, each to his own.

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