I just got an Ikelite 6140.64 housing for a Canon A640.
I have discovered that I get a crescent moon backflash/reflection from the camera flash in every picture. This occurs with or without the DS-51 substrobe.
It seems that there is a small gap between the camera lens and the front gasket on the housing that lets the light back in and it gets in the picture.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it?
I need some help because so far I can't get a usable picture using a flash or flash/strobe.
Thanks in advance.
It does sound as if the flash is getting between the lens and foam shade. We haven't encountered this problem with our testing at Ikelite, so it is possible that there are slight variances in the shade thickness.
Send your postal mailing address and request to brett@ikelite.com. I will have a thinner version of your shade sent, to be added to the existing piece. This should eliminate the problem.
Brett:
Thanks for your answer.
I got an email from Ikelite requesting that I return the housing. Maybe you can be on the lookout for it to observe the problem.
