Ishie
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NOT that I'm complaining (will post the pictures soon)...
I'm still learning to understand photography, with the added complication of strobes.
I'm shooting the C-5060 with an Ike housing,the DS-50 strobe, and the Ike manual controller.
Previously, I've been using the flash cover that comes with the Ike housing and have had mixed results, often got a shadow in supermacro and so forth.
Settings are: camera set to slave mode on all three "My Mode" settings, strobe turned to TTL, and I haven't figured out the whole manual controller thing yet. No sync cable.
This weekend, I forgot to put the flash cover on the housing, but didn't change any of my standard settings, and shot slave mode with the strobe, just without the internal flash covered or diffused. I shot in three modes (macro, experimental wide-angle, and supermacro). The "large" shots (divers and such) may not have been the same caliber as usual, but generally, I got the best shots I've ever gotten, including some crystal clear supermacro shots (a first, thanks to advice here on the nudibranch thread) with no backscatter, despite there being a lot of particulate matter in the water.
Does anyone who knows something about the tech details understand why? If this is a desirable setup or if I'm using the wrong settings? When the strobe didn't fire (pictures too rapidly), the pictures were black, as if the internal strobe wasn't firing at all, but it must to trigger the strobe? Am I better off just leaving the flash cover at home from now on?
Thanks!
I'm still learning to understand photography, with the added complication of strobes.
I'm shooting the C-5060 with an Ike housing,the DS-50 strobe, and the Ike manual controller.
Previously, I've been using the flash cover that comes with the Ike housing and have had mixed results, often got a shadow in supermacro and so forth.
Settings are: camera set to slave mode on all three "My Mode" settings, strobe turned to TTL, and I haven't figured out the whole manual controller thing yet. No sync cable.
This weekend, I forgot to put the flash cover on the housing, but didn't change any of my standard settings, and shot slave mode with the strobe, just without the internal flash covered or diffused. I shot in three modes (macro, experimental wide-angle, and supermacro). The "large" shots (divers and such) may not have been the same caliber as usual, but generally, I got the best shots I've ever gotten, including some crystal clear supermacro shots (a first, thanks to advice here on the nudibranch thread) with no backscatter, despite there being a lot of particulate matter in the water.
Does anyone who knows something about the tech details understand why? If this is a desirable setup or if I'm using the wrong settings? When the strobe didn't fire (pictures too rapidly), the pictures were black, as if the internal strobe wasn't firing at all, but it must to trigger the strobe? Am I better off just leaving the flash cover at home from now on?
Thanks!
