bonica neon strobe w/ pt 010??

[Abril]

Has anyone used this strobe with the pt 010 housing? Im in a debate as to weather it will work together or not. I really want a flash and this one's in my price range!

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=getItemDetail&index=Y&is=REG&Q=&O=&sku=200100

I found it at this store if you want to read about ithttp://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=getItemDetail&index=Y&is=REG&Q=&O=&sku=200100

 

[ssra30]

I assume you have either Olympus C4040, 4000 or other xx40 series camera since you mentioned PT-010.
I don't think that this strobe will work with your camera because of the preflash that your camera will put out.
Basically the strobe is triggered by your internal flash but if the camera fire the flash twice consecutively, your strobe will fire with the first flash (the preflash) so the strobe will not sync with the camera. I think you can disable the preflash only with Olympus C5050. Basically for other Olympus camera, you will need a strobe that will ignore preflash or work with preflash so you are pretty much stuck with various strobes from Ikelite, Sea and Sea or Inon for most part.

 

[wetman]

I have used that strobe on my c5050. Its far too bright and not adjustable at all. You'd have to rig up some way to dampen the flash so you're already talking workaround. Every shot i took with it was overexposed even if i set the camera in such a way as to let the minimum light in.

steve