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I have a 10Bar LX5 housing for my Panasonic LX5, the camera uses Olympus TTL protocol and the housing has a hot shoe ribbon cable that connects to a Nikonos 5 pin port. 10Bar recommends their own strobe housing with an Olympus flash for TTL. Optical Ocean Sales suggests using a fiber connection with a Sea & Sea for "optical" TTL. I'd prefer to use the Ikelite DS-161 strobe and a true wired TTL connection. I like the 161 with it's built in Focus/Video light and future upgradability to an Ik housing for my Nikon DSLR.
So far I've only been able to get this setup to work in Manuel mode with a two wire Ikelite cable with Nikonos to Ikelite ends.
Does anyone have experience with mike-dive.de or heinrichsweikamp.net ? It looks like they may have a solution but it's hard to follow in german. There is not much room inside the housing for a TTL conversion circuit board but it looks like heinrichsweikamp has an exterior solution.
So far I love the 10 Bar housing and the LX5 performs better than expected, it is compact and focus works great. All the controls are there with only the thumbwheel giving me a bit of trouble by not allowing me to change shutter speed.
Thanks for any help.
So far I've only been able to get this setup to work in Manuel mode with a two wire Ikelite cable with Nikonos to Ikelite ends.
Does anyone have experience with mike-dive.de or heinrichsweikamp.net ? It looks like they may have a solution but it's hard to follow in german. There is not much room inside the housing for a TTL conversion circuit board but it looks like heinrichsweikamp has an exterior solution.
So far I love the 10 Bar housing and the LX5 performs better than expected, it is compact and focus works great. All the controls are there with only the thumbwheel giving me a bit of trouble by not allowing me to change shutter speed.
Thanks for any help.
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