Problems with Subal D10

Hi eveyone,

Today was my first time using the Subal D10 for the Nikon D100. I seted up

housing and camera the night before and everything was fine,but this morning during the first dive I realised that my Nikonos 105sb didn't fired.The camera shows that the flash is ready to fire but nothing happen I am using two Nikonos syncords and I tried just use one flash but nothing happen

Has any one had the same problem before ?

Thanks

David

Hi David

Unless someone knows better, I think it will be the settings of the small plugs on the back of the PCD in the housing. I've emailed you with the way to sort this out.

When you tried with one strobe and synch cord did you try both sockets. I can't remember for sure but I think that one of the sockets is the primary and you must use that one. Not sure though.

It could be possible that using two strobes puts too much power into the camera. You might want to take the battery out of the camera for 10 minutes or so to let it reset and then try the camera and housing with only one strobe. I did use two DS125 or DS50 strobes with my housing without problems.

how may of the 5 wires are used to connect the 105 to the D100?

If the SP wire is present then you might have problems. I don't have a D100 but on the D1,D1X,D70 and D2X (I seem to collect Nikon cameras......) one must use a true speedlight if the SP wire is connected.

What I do is to kill the SP wire on the D1. On the D1X and the D70, I must also cut the ready wire and on the D2X I must also cut the quench wire unless I have a SB28DX,SB800 or something that is specifically supported.

Depending upon the camera/strobe combo either the strobe will not fire at all, the strobe will fire but no image will be recorded or (confusingly) an image will be recorded on the second and subsequent firings.

Jeremy Brookfield