FE-280 with external strobe

[myrtlebeachbums]

Hey Everyone,
I've got an Olympus FE-280 with the PT-038 underwater housing, and a friend of mine loaned me his Sealife external strobe. When I use the FE-280 the Sealife strobe fires, but a little too late to be useful.

Can someone with a similar setup please tell me how you're making this work? I see no pre-flash setting on the FE-280, and I'd love to make this work.

Thanks,
- Dave

 

[gary-ramey]

If the Sealife strobe is an SL960 it has no way to ignore your preflash. So if you can set the olympus flash into slave mode, choose an output..usually 1-10 then you can make the strobe work. If you don't have a slave mode inside the camera. The strobe won't work with the camera. The sealife 960D is the strobe that has preflash ignore and works with most digital cameras.