Canon EOS 350 D - Sea & Sea YS-90DX

I am having problems finding the right settings for firing the external strobe.

Without using an external flash I give the command to fire/use the flash by pressing the little "flash button" and the inbuilt strobe pops up and fires. By using the same settings with an external flash (connection via hotshoe and Ikelite Sync cable) the use of the "flash button" is deactivated and the strobe will not fire.

Is there a setting in the custom settings I am missing?

Please help!

Thank you very much.

Hi I'm not a canon man

however you might wel find that the strobe will not fire due to the pin connections on the hotshoe.

check Ike's site for information, if it were nikon i could help you more,

i'm sure however it will be the same issue that nikon user have if all pins are connected on the hotshoe.

you really dont want to pop up the internal flash either , as this defeats the object of using an external gun really.

not only do external gun yeald more power , they also help us remove our arch enemy "backscatter" along with lots of other plus pionts.

regards

craig

Hi again, just read a little information on it for you

according to ikelite you may need to cover up the 4 small pins on the hotshoe cable in your housing to get the strobe to fire.

leave the main larger central one free to connect and try it again,

you should be able to fire the strobe in MANUAL only.

regards

craig

the pins should be arranged like this

O- leave this one free to connect

o o

o o --- cover these four with insulation tape

Hi Craig,

Thank you for your advice and pointing me to the Ikelite Help Pages. I did the recommended test for Sync cables with the paper clip and it shows clearly that the Ikelite Sync cable has an intermittend fault. It works only if I move the cable!!

Thanks again.

Great stuff,

glad to help out

craig