RussR
Contributor
After swearing off ebay for a few years I again got swept up in what I thought was a good deal and put the winning bid in prior to doing enough research.
So I am now the owner of an Ikelite Substrobe 50, the older orange model, not the DS-50.The strobe is listed in the Strobe Finder link and seems to be a good strobe but after some further inquires it seems the strobe is not set up for digital cameras. (This I learned from Ikelite)
The seller came back and gave me this information:
I do not think this strobe has slave mode so it would not be useful without a synch cord
and
maybe with the use of a slave sensor you can still find a use for that strobe. You can set up a digital strobe with a dual synch cord, and the other end of the cord goes to the Ikelite slave sensor-to this substrobe... It would be in synch full-TTL,since the Ike TTL slave sensor ought to be useful with this one
(My camera Setup is Olympus SP350 in the Olympus PT-030 Housing)
So I have the following Questions
1. Should I resell the strobe or can I use it with my setup either alone or as a second strobe on a dual TTL cord?
2. Are there strobes that work with this housing that do not require a new bulkhead other then the Olympus?
I think that is it. Any suggestions are welcome
So I am now the owner of an Ikelite Substrobe 50, the older orange model, not the DS-50.The strobe is listed in the Strobe Finder link and seems to be a good strobe but after some further inquires it seems the strobe is not set up for digital cameras. (This I learned from Ikelite)
The seller came back and gave me this information:
I do not think this strobe has slave mode so it would not be useful without a synch cord
and
maybe with the use of a slave sensor you can still find a use for that strobe. You can set up a digital strobe with a dual synch cord, and the other end of the cord goes to the Ikelite slave sensor-to this substrobe... It would be in synch full-TTL,since the Ike TTL slave sensor ought to be useful with this one
(My camera Setup is Olympus SP350 in the Olympus PT-030 Housing)
So I have the following Questions
1. Should I resell the strobe or can I use it with my setup either alone or as a second strobe on a dual TTL cord?
2. Are there strobes that work with this housing that do not require a new bulkhead other then the Olympus?
I think that is it. Any suggestions are welcome