cheap underwater slave strobe

[devilgas]

this may be of interest to all underwater photogs....
how does an underwater slave strobe for £40 / $70 (or less) grab you?

all the gory details are here.... http://www.devilgas.com/uwstrobe/index.php

made from a vivitar ds120 digital flash and an otterbox!

 

[f3nikon]

this may be of interest to all underwater photogs....
how does an underwater slave strobe for £40 / $70 (or less) grab you?

all the gory details are here.... http://www.devilgas.com/uwstrobe/index.php

made from a vivitar ds120 digital flash and an otterbox!

Hats off to your resourcefulness, but why go through all the trouble?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4703&item=7525719953&rd=1

Dive Safe

 

[fdog]

I'll second f3nikon's reccomendation for the Ike SubStrobe 50 MS. A bulletproof slave, mine have never flooded (wow!). Impossible to kill and a nice small package.

All the best, James

 

[devilgas]

why go to the trouble?
if you're refering to the ike ds-50, that costs £280 new over here!

say i were to bid on the strobe on ebay and win it at the starting price of $50 (unlikely i think you'd agree), by the time i add on the ridiculous shipping costs that seem to be charged to get stuff across the pond, then add on import duty and vat (which our government will kindly levy) then it all gets a little expensive.
so, £40 / $70 for a complete homegrown one that will work with whatever i throw at it doesn't seem that bad.

besides which, i (like a lot of brits) like putting junk like this together. that's why i've built my own o2 analyser, dive computer interface, hacked the ys50 to be digital compatible and change my own computer batteries ;-)

 

[f3nikon]

I don't know....$77 is a good deal for this "bulletproof" strobe, and thats including the arm and cord! I found the same type of deal from the ebay in England.

Good Luck

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7525719953&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

 

[f3nikon]

I don't know....$77 is a good deal for this "bulletproof" strobe, and thats including the arm and cord! I found the same type of deal from the ebay in England.

Good Luck

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7525719953&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

And another deal

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