DS 125 TTL sync cord with Oly 8080

Hi

Just hoping someone could give me some advice. I have an Oly c8080, pt023 with the digital TTL converter from mike-dive. I was using the set up with a YS60 which was working fine until the sync cord died. I then managed to get a DS125 second hand BUT without a sync cord. I have contacted IKE re: which sync cord I need but (not surprisingly) they cannot give me guidance for the converter! Hence I am wondering whether anyone has used the DS125 with this set up and if so did you use the standard ike - nikonos TTL sync cord?

Cheers

Roger

Hi Roger,

I assume you have exchanged the original Olympus bulkhead / strobe socket on the housing with a standard sea&sea or nikonos type bulkhead.

As far as I have understood, there is an exchange bulkhead from mike-dive available for nikonos ('/N') and sea&sea ('/S') cables. Which one do you have?

It should be a standard Ikelite cable for Nikonos if you have installed the converter with the /N bulkhead option.

Julian

Hi Julian

I assume you have exchanged the original Olympus bulkhead / strobe socket on the housing with a standard sea&sea or nikonos type bulkhead. As far as I have understood, there is an exchange bulkhead from mike-dive available for nikonos ('/N') and sea&sea ('/S') cables. Which one do you have?

Yes that is correct I have exchanged for a mike-dive nikonos bulkhead /strobe socket.

It should be a standard Ikelite cable for Nikonos if you have installed the converter with the /N bulkhead option.

From the info on the mike-dive site it states that the DS125 will work in TTL mode with the new bulkhead BUT it doesn't tell me which sync cable I need. As you are probably aware there are a few options for this strobe: Ikelite Sync Cords. IKE suggested a sync cord choice #4104.31 but suggested that it would only work in manual mode?? I have found the standard IKE/Nikonos TTL cord #4104.6 on ebay so I will chance my arm with that unless anyone knows for sure.

Thanks for your help.

cheers

Roger over n out

I vote with Julian for new #4104.6 digital sync cord. The #4104.31 provides sync only conductors and could not provide TTL. Only mike-dive can give definitive answer............

Thanks IKE

Will go with that one.

Looking to upgrade soon and was wondering if you had any news on an ikelite housing for the EOS 5D?!

Thanks

Roger, over

We just found an EOS 5D. Does not appear to pose any installation problems. Are testing now to see if our eTTL2 conversion circuitry needs tweaking. Should have housings in October, could have housings in October, but will know by November?

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Just hoping someone could give me some advice. I have an Oly c8080, pt023 with the digital TTL converter from mike-dive. I was using the set up with a YS60 which was working fine until the sync cord died. I then managed to get a DS125 second hand BUT without a sync cord. I have contacted IKE re: which sync cord I need but (not surprisingly) they cannot give me guidance for the converter! Hence I am wondering whether anyone has used the DS125 with this set up and if so did you use the standard ike - nikonos TTL sync cord?

 

Cheers

 

Roger 

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You don't say which type of OLY-TTL-PT-? converter you have. Was your converter the -S (Sea & Sea) version or the -N (Nikonos) version? See:

http://www.heinrichsweikamp.net/blitz/indexe.htm

One version makes your housing look like a Sea&Sea Motor Marine III bulkhead, the other makes it look like a Nikonos V bulkhead.

If it was -S, bad news! No new cord is available to to mate a Sea&Sea camera to Ikelite. See if you can exchange it for the N version from HeinrichsWeikamp, and get a cord for the N version below.

If it was -N, you need an "Nikonos housing to Ikelite substrobe" cord, from Ikelite only. Your camera looks like a Nikonos housing, so you CANNOT use the Ikelite housing to Ikelite Substrobe cord 4103.51 as previously suggested here!

You can probably use any of the older Ikelite Nikonos TTL camera to Ikelite substrobe cords, numbers 4104.31, 4104.51, 4104.6 (and their dual strobe versions -32, -62). The 4104.31 cord leaves out the SP signal, which the converter does not use, so it should be OK if that is all you can find. The other two, 4104.51, 4104.6, are the old cords used for TTL from Nikonos III, IV, V, and RS cameras to Ikelite substrobe. There must be a lot around used and they are available new from Ikelite also.

The strobe needs 3 signals to operate, the X, Q, and Gnd, and I believe the converter draws power from the strobe on the Ready line to operate. Hence you need a 4 wire cord to the strobe, and the old cords should have those wires to run TTL. If you have an Ikelite cord that is not labled, you can test the continuity on the pins listed in the following description and verify the wires needed are there.

The Ikelite and Nikonos interfaces are described here:

http://www.camerasunderwater.co.uk/info/tech/nikttl.html