shadowing on c5050?

[WOODMAN]

I seem to recall this subject being brought up before, but here goes anyway. I have a periodic problem with shadowing showing up on my images, always down in the lower left hand quadrant. It seems to be more common on the closeup images, but not always. I try to keep my dual strobes wide apart and back a little if possible. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[rhlee]

How close-up? are you using an external strobe, or a wet-lens? Perhaps the lens/port is blocking the light from the internal flash to the lower-left of the frame (assuming the internal flash is above and to the right of the lens)?

 

[Footslogger]

I seem to recall this subject being brought up before, but here goes anyway. I have a periodic problem with shadowing showing up on my images, always down in the lower left hand quadrant. It seems to be more common on the closeup images, but not always. I try to keep my dual strobes wide apart and back a little if possible. Anybody have any ideas?

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You using an Ikelite housing with the TTL hotshoe ?? Make sure the synch connector is plugged into the hotshoe in the correct direction. I know ...this sounds pretty elementary, but the first time I used my 5050 in the Ike housing I accidentally slid the connector into the shoe backwards and I got an annoying shaddow in the lower left quadrant of all my shots - - until I figured out the problem, of course.

 

[WOODMAN]

I'm using an Ikelite housing with dual D125 external strobes, and I'm pretty sure the shoe is in the right way. This only happens rarely, and most of my shots look good. It seems to be a problem with the closeups more than anything else, it seems, and perhaps with macro. And always in the same spot. I will be using the camera on my trip to the Exumas next week, and will see if this crops up again.