OK, I'm on day 2 with this camera and here is the setup. Oly 5060, Ikelight housing and DS125 strobe. Here is my problem, which happens inside or outside of the housing: The flash setting turns to off or no flash, although it is set to slow1 and external in Mymode. I cannot change the flash setting to slow1 (won't let you pick that option) UNLESS the external flash is connected and ON. That means that I must turn the flash on and adjust the flash setting to slow1 after the camera is in the housing and the flash is on, even though the configuration was saved in mymode1 originally with the slow1 setting. This is an extra task that I didn't think I would have to do with my mode.
Is anyone else having this problem? I've saved the configuration with the camera in the housing, and that still does not fix the problem.
I'm heading out on a liveaboard Saturday and looking forward to using this camera. It seems strange going from the Nikonos V to a housed camera but I'm getting used to it.
Thanks,
Diverace
This is a camera issue, so we are guessing: Go to setup menu and turn off "all reset" choice so settings are retained when you power down. Our conversion circuitry follows all of the rules of a genuine Olympus external strobes so definite answers would be in their camera or strobe instructions. Our strobe must be "on" to answer the camera inquiry as to what is attached to the hot shoe. Bad answer and the camera says illegal strobe attached and produces manual strobe without TTL information.
Found fix
Thanks to Peter at Splashdown Divers, he found a way around it. And Ike you were correct as well. I had to turn the flash on first, then the camera, go in to mymode, change the flash setting from "none" to "slow1" and then save the mode again. Saving the configuration with the flash "on" did the trick. I just have to remember to turn the flash on first from now on.
