Nikon 8800 and Ikelite

Can anyone confirm and/or explain why Ikelite states that their housing for the Nikon Coolpix 8800 housing (6198.88):

The camera flash is blocked by the housing. Optional strobes do not operate TTL with these cameras

Why won't the TTL flash function work? I would think that when you use a nikon TTL flash installed on the hotshoe on land the pop-up flash is blocked, but yet you still have TTL.

Please help! Thanks

The camera flash is physically blocked by the housing, the dome part is blocking the light from the internal flash, you can see it in pictures in Kellie’s site.

Since this housing don’t have an electricity connector for strobes the external strobe can only operate as slave, according to what written on the site only the manual controller is working with that camera model.

Thanks for the reply, but it does have a hotshoe to connect a cable for strobe such as the DS50 substrobe by Ikelite. The hotshoe should be able to send a signal to an external strobe when the built-in flash is closed??

The TTL conversion circuitry developed for Nikon D70 for example does not work with the Coolpix 8800 camera. Each camera seems to have its own idiosyncrasies for TTL which is why we put the circuitry in the housing rather than in the strobe. One strobe design is then portable between most camera makes and models. We have not had time to go back and do this particular camera with the deluge of new camera models.............

In the similar 8400 an external flash attached through the housing hot shoe will not fire unless the internal strobe is in the up position, even if you have the internal flash turned off in the menu. May be the same with the 8800. No logical explanation. It just "is".

You still don't have TTL. You don't need it though. The 8400 is a better camera to house.