greenbeans
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Hey all!
I've had a Canon G10 with the canon housing for almost 2 years now, and a year ago I got an Epoque 230 strobe with a fiber optic cord and have been having no end of trouble with it. I've tried quite a few different DIY attachments... anyway, my main problem seems to be getting the strobe to fire underwater. I've played around with the strobe connector, trying to get the cut end of the fiber optic cable as close to the internal flash as possible (on the outside)... I can get it to fire these days on land if I press the cable against the housing with my finger, but nothing doing underwater, even with internal flash on max. I keep trimming the end of the cable thinking that might be the problem - I don't think the cable itself has been worn out as because of these issues the flash has really hardly been used, maybe on 4 or 5 dives but eventually it would stop firing.
Anyone have any advice about fiber optic cables in general or had similar issues, or knows some fool proof way of attaching the cable to the canon housing to make it fire all the time? Getting quite frustrated and the strobe seems more and more like an expensive paperweight! I want to improve with my photography and this is holding me back. I'm considering getting an ikelite housing (anyone want to sell me one?) and going TTL....
Thanks for your advice
Gabby
I've had a Canon G10 with the canon housing for almost 2 years now, and a year ago I got an Epoque 230 strobe with a fiber optic cord and have been having no end of trouble with it. I've tried quite a few different DIY attachments... anyway, my main problem seems to be getting the strobe to fire underwater. I've played around with the strobe connector, trying to get the cut end of the fiber optic cable as close to the internal flash as possible (on the outside)... I can get it to fire these days on land if I press the cable against the housing with my finger, but nothing doing underwater, even with internal flash on max. I keep trimming the end of the cable thinking that might be the problem - I don't think the cable itself has been worn out as because of these issues the flash has really hardly been used, maybe on 4 or 5 dives but eventually it would stop firing.
Anyone have any advice about fiber optic cables in general or had similar issues, or knows some fool proof way of attaching the cable to the canon housing to make it fire all the time? Getting quite frustrated and the strobe seems more and more like an expensive paperweight! I want to improve with my photography and this is holding me back. I'm considering getting an ikelite housing (anyone want to sell me one?) and going TTL....
Thanks for your advice
Gabby