Been sitting here thinking about trying something crazy. If one was to construct his own synch cable to allow piping the internal flash from a housing to a slave sensor, what kind of cable would be best and where would one find it?
Mike
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Fiber Optic Cable
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We used to get Fiber from "Todd's House of Fiber" www.toddsfiber.com but it has vanished. Last time I logged in I noticed he had sold out and was under a new name. However now the old URL is dead. Anybody know what happened to Todd's?
I used 3mm (big thick stuff) but no doubt you can go smaller for more flexibility.
If you go to this news archive (scroll to April 25, 2001 - prehistoric) you will see that Herb Ko was an early pioneer in this and actually used a 1mm fiber to prevent the pre-flash from firing a conventional slave. Maybe 1mm is too small then if you wish to reliably get low power flashes.
Dave
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Try this place: http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/
They will sell you pieces by the foot, also get their polishing sheets. I bought some 1 foot pieces of a couple sizes for a project I'm working on.
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This could bring a whole new dimension to night diving - We could all look like squid!
Seriously, the side emitting stuff would be great under the boat and down the shot line.
