Help .. what sync. cord to use

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Wisnu

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I decided to buy 10bar housing for Oly E-PL1 instead of Oly OEM housing. Oly housing does not have bulk connector - and I want to use my 10bar housed strobe (Metz 58AF-1 for Olympus/Panasonic camera) I bought separately from 10bar; rather than to buy new strobe with fiberoptic connector.

The sync. cord (OPM5-NKM) supplied by 10bar (not by optical ocean) as part the 10bar housing package can not be used to connect those housings. I also have Epoque ES-SC-OLF sync. cord for olympus housing. I can not use this sync. cord too. I borrow my friend's oly sync. cord - but still can not be used. The connectors do not fit. It fit one side only.

I asked Jack - and sent him the following pictures of the bulkhead connector on both housings.
The bulkhead on the 10bar housing for E-PL1
bulk_head_at_10bar_housing_for_EPL1.jpg

The bulkhead connector on the 10bar housing for Metz 58AF-1 flash for Olympus/panny camera.
bulk_head_at_10bar_flash_housing.jpg


He adviced to use S&S Nikonos V sync. cord.
I get it though not cheap.
Guess - Does not fit :(:(:(:(
This cable also has different ends. Only one end can be connected to either the camera housing or housed strobe.
Note - all the other three sync. cord can also be connected on one end only.

I don't know what I can do now .. next week I'll be going for dive trip to Ambon.
Thanks much for any advice and suggestion ..
I have three sync. cord that can not be used
Any DIY to modify these cable ?
 
I need a better picture, shoot down into the connector itself. The connector on the camera is certainly a nikonos connector. The connector on the flash housing appears to be the same but can't tell from your picture. I assume that there is one connector end that fits both the housing and the strobe at least that's what your post suggests. If it is the same one that fits both you need a nikonos to nikonos cable. You can get them from Reef Photo for sure.

Bill
 
Bill,
The connectors on the camera and flash housing are same type - can be connected to one end of the sync. cord.
The problem is - all sync. cord that I found, has different end connectors, ie. male and female thread.
I did check the reef Photo website - may be the N5 - N5 Sync Cable will fit but not sure as there's no picture.
 
This is far out of my field of expertise, but if the cables have only one male and one female end, while each piece of hardware you have, only have female, is it possible to simple make a male/male adapter for one end?

Works for other things I do, but may not work for fiber optic cable? Just trying to help.
 

That appears to be the one. You can also get this one javascript:popupWindow('http://reefphoto.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=1965') from Ryan for $159
I have one that I will be happy to sell you. It is a year old but has only been used for about 10 dives. $100 and you pay the shipping.
Bill
billv2001@ca.rr.com
 

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