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problem with ikelite ttl

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problem with ikelite ttl

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  1. Hallo, I am starting to use a oly7070 with a Ike ttl housing and ike ds125 strobe, and while some pictures come very well exposed others are very dark. I tought that may be I was to far from my subject, but it did not change much if I went very near.It appears as if the camera thinks that there is even to much light, so the strobe fires a very little amount of light. Even in macro mode some times pictures are very dark. Settings are : manual mode, 1/150 F 5.6 for wide angle( ike dome and wide converter olympus) ; 1/200 F 10 for macro ( no supermacro). What makes me nervous is that with the same settings sometimes everything is fine, while others, pictures are dark. I connected strobe and housing with a cable (ike ttl), and I have set the camera so that every shot the strobe should fire but I noticed that is not always as it should. If I set the strobe to manual then it always fires! How come? I would be disappointed if I should use it in manual afetr having chosen this piece of gear so that I can have ttl capabilities! Is there anybody that has experimented the same problems? Do you think is a problem of wrong settings? camera defect? strobe defect? thanks for your opinions

    Henryfd

  2. Henryfd seems to describe an intermittent malfunction, so we would suspect a cable problem. It could be either in the sync cord or in the hot shoe cable. Also, make sure the connector is securely and completely in the camera hot shoe.

  3. Thanks, : :)

    I checked and it was the connector! When you insert the back of the housing the inside cable can be pushed back and the connector slides 1 or 2 millimetres so that if you don't pay very close attentions you wan't notice. Only when you are in the water!! The camera goes crazy and all the settings go nuts! Even the in camera strobe starts to fire when you shot! But now , thanks to your advice , it will not appen again! :D:D:o:o

    Henryfd

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