sea & sea iTTL converter

Carol,

Wish you GOOD Luck !!!

Sam

What great and rather instant service from Ryan to check things out and remove all doubt as to the source of the problem. Yea!

 

But I won't get too excited till I've had it work for ME - underwater!!

Edit: As you can see Ryan beat me to this post by minutes - that's what I get for being long-winded......!

This is great News!

I have been shooting my mouth about how cool this converter is and how well it has worked for me that I was beginning to get worried... ;-)

Peeew!!

Thanks for keeping us updated Carol!

Espen

can someone please tell me what exactly does a TTL converter ?

with simple words please

Hello ,

simple answer : a TTL converter converts the cam system TTL into the strobe system TTL

a bit more informations :

every digital and anaolog cam speaks a different language to tell the strobe what to do ..... the TTL converter is a translater between cam and strobe and obvious to use if you will conneckt a simple Nikonos TTL protokoll understanding UW strobe to a digital cam . The strobe has to be able to fire as fast as the cam needs some older ones are not able to do so they are not kompatible .....nearly all digital cams are using preflashes to do metering and exposer control some use 1 preflash others up to 18 .....

Michael

Hi All,

 

There seems to be quite a few quirks to iron out on the use of these converters. Thus far mine is working flawlessly with Inon z240 (type two) strobes if that means anything. Mine was bought on the japaneese market. Can the problems be strobe related? Or simply certain combinations of camera, strobes and converter? It would be interesting to hear which combinations work. So please list what you equipment you have been using in future posts.

 

Luiz,

 

The converter works very well with my D2x and Inon's but looking at your list of equipment you will not get the Ikelite strobes to work in Ittl, only manual. Will it work with the

 

Sam,

Thanks for the clarification!

 

Carol,

I've attached a couple of pictures of my macro setup. By attaching the converter to the port i get it of the handles and leave them free. Just a thought.

 

Cheers,

Espen

 

Can you you guide me to what settings to use with the Z 240 when using iTTL with the Sea and Sea ittl II converter???

Can you you guide me to what settings to use with the Z 240 when using iTTL with the Sea and Sea ittl II converter???

The strobe has 4 switches. To for on/off and Manual/TTL and two magnetic switches. Set the bottom right magnetic switch in the down/locked position BEFORE you turn the flash on. Set the top right switch to TTL. Set the top right switch to STTL. Bottom left switch is optional aiming light.

Turn strobes on First, then TTL_converter, then camera. Most TTL systems do not work well on open apertures due to their flash output is enlarged to be used underwater. Set the aprture for F8 and up. Watch the histogram. If the converter puts the histogram roughly in the middle, things should be working ok.

Espen

Espen,

Thanks for the information you posted & I have few questions;

1.On my 2xZ220, I removed all magnets from both strobes and I thought it was still working well (Magnet was for old Nikon film TTL).

Any reason to 'play' with magnet ? What happens if magnet was not pushed (or removed)??

2.The sequence of turning on, is it also, important/critical ?

3.Is any 'Instruction book' available to use with Inon product ?

Sam

Espen,

Thanks for the information you posted & I have few questions;

1.On my 2xZ220, I removed all magnets from both strobes and I thought it was still working well (Magnet was for old Nikon film TTL).

Any reason to 'play' with magnet ? What happens if magnet was not pushed (or removed)??

2.The sequence of turning on, is it also, important/critical ?

3.Is any 'Instruction book' available to use with Inon product ?

 

Sam

Hi Sam,

I have no experience with the z220s.

z240: The magnet switch is the very same you would set the strobe to when using nikon film TTL.

The sequence is important because the strobe (i'm told) looks for a cabled TTL-protocol when magnet is on.

Probably. I don't have one.

Espen