Seatool 400D housing

[lukeROB]

Played all night with the housing. Wasn't difficult to set everything up - especially since most of my instruction was in Japanese.

I don't have time to write much more at the moment but thought I would begin the post.

You will note that it comes standard with the glowing 'halo'

 

[alcina]

This thing is so tiny! I'm almost jealous

Can't wait for my bud up here to get hers!!

And very much looking forward to your indepth (yes, it's a pun) report on this rig - it's a beaut!

Going diving on the weekend?

 

[lukeROB]

I'll be winging my way to the Philippines on the weekend and will be in the water on by Tuesday next week.

I so busy trying to get stuff wrapped up at work that I'm going crazy - I wanted to get a test in before I left.

Housing is amazing though. It basically feels like using a bigger version of the actual camera. All controls are reached and used in the same way and the Inon port makes using the lens exactly like on land.

Only thing I was having a problem with was the strobe. It was missing about 80% of the time in S-TTL. I finally narrowed it down to signal problems through the optical cord. In my typical stupid style I decided that I would investigate by 'tinkering' with the optical cable connectors. Quickly worked out my problem and now get perfect exposure everytime but managed to lose a tiny spring in the process. Idiot. Seems to still be OK with one but still annoying.

 

[Gudge]

Can't wait for my bud up here to get hers!!

Mary's will be shipped today, so you should be able to get a good look at it by the end of next week!

 

[pakman]

That is a nice looking housing.... BTW, one thing I forgot to look into was how the optical cable end fits into the housing and detects the flash when I saw the housing in person. I presume the cables do not penetrate the housing, yet sit inside where the semi-opened internal flash can still reach them?

 

[lukeROB]

That is a nice looking housing.... BTW, one thing I forgot to look into was how the optical cable end fits into the housing and detects the flash when I saw the housing in person. I presume the cables do not penetrate the housing, yet sit inside where the semi-opened internal flash can still reach them?

Yep. The cables are held in by a small spring loaded connect (the orange thing on the front in my pics). They do not penetrate the housing and the same material as the optic fibre cable has been embedded so the half opened flash passes straight through to the cables.

However not a great deal of light passes through so you have to ensure that you really push the cable in all the way. If not they do not sync properly. I lost a spring by taking this apart to investigate. All I can say is I cannot believe how good the S-TTL is. I was sceptical but since trying this out I see no reason to have another failure point (electrical sync) except to extend battery life. I took around 300 shots to empty a battery with at least 50% at full dump because I didn't have the optical cable connected properly.

So Alcina tell your friend to really push the cable down all the way - when you think it is in you probably need to push a little more.

 

[pakman]

thanks lukeROB

From my past experience with Inon's S-TTL on a Canon point and shoot, I've found it as accurate as my current S&S TTL Converter connected eletronically.