What strobes for a Olympus 330 ?

A friend of mine got a Olympus 330 slr with the original Olympus housing ( got it before he heard of Ikelite )

Now he wants to add a flash ( or 2 ). The range of flashes Olympus offer are not that great.

Is is possible to connect a fx. Sea & Sea YS110 directly to the housing or what should he be looking at ?

He says that the housing got a 5 pin connector.

Kenneth

Hi Kenneth,

The Olympus 5 pin connector is made for TTL with Olympus land strobes in housings. As you pointed out this is not the best solution for U/W photography. If you want to use TTL you will need a TTL conterter like the ones offered by Athena-opt.com. I use this converter with the Pt-E02 housing and Inon Z220 strobes with great results. Several strobes from Inon and Sea & Sea can be used with the Athena Converter. You will also find a large number of after market items that can be used with all the Olympus DSLR housings.

Regards

Phil Rudin

Hi Kenneth,

 

The Olympus 5 pin connector is made for TTL with Olympus land strobes in housings. As you pointed out this is not the best solution for U/W photography. If you want to use TTL you will need a TTL conterter like the ones offered by Athena-opt.com. I use this converter with the Pt-E02 housing and Inon Z220 strobes with great results. Several strobes from Inon and Sea & Sea can be used with the Athena Converter. You will also find a large number of after market items that can be used with all the Olympus DSLR housings.

 

Regards

 

Phil Rudin

Hi Phil.

Just had a look at the athena homepage and that looks like the think he could use. Thank very much for your answer

Kenneth

Your welcome,

An excellent source for Athena is Reef Photo and Video.

http://www.reefphoto.com/index.php?zenid=2...main_page=index

If your friend shoots manually, he can use the Ikelite strobes with a manual slave controller, but must fool the camera into thinking the flash is deployed. RogerC has done this by using a piece of toothpick to keep the flash from fully popping up, but open enough to fit in the housing and flash for the EV controller to pick up.

Jim's a smart guy, you should listen to him.

how-to photos to prove it:

http://www.rogercarlsonphotography.com/gal..._pt-e02_strobe/

Hi Guys,

I notice, with a lot of interest, that Olympus has released an U/W strobe just for us good folks.

The info can be found in UwPmag issue 37, and it looks suspiciously like an older S&S style?

I haven't checked the spec's but it is certainly the Olympus answer for TTL shooting.

Don't remember seeing any prices though...

HTH,

Bruce

The olympus flash is expensive and its only got a guide number of 14 as far as I remember

Kenneth