SmokingMirror
Contributor
From searching around, I know a great many of you have and use - or are experienced with - the MX10 camera from Sea&Sea, a model I have recently acquired, together with the strobe accessory.
Over the past few days, I have been endeavouring to do some test shots prior to diving with it to ensure not only that everything works, but that I get to know how to handle the basics.
Unfortunately, I have had no success with the strobe at all. I have 400 speed film loaded into the camera, and the f/stop knob turned, as per the manual advice, to f8.
Like this, I can take photos without a problem. However, when I attach the strobe, and set it to AUTO, the manual tells me that an indication light on the rear of the strobe should light for a period of about 2 seconds when I am at the correct distance to the subject. Unfortunately, the light never lights in any circumstances, or at any ambient light level.
I then tried changing the strobe to ON, but still find that I can take pictures in any light level, but the strobe simply never fires. I know power is to the strobe, since the top orange light is always lit and the strobe emits a constant high pitched whine when on, but have so far been utterly unsuccessfull in getting the thing to work. Both infared windows have also been checked and cleaned, and are not blocked.
Can anybody please advise?
Over the past few days, I have been endeavouring to do some test shots prior to diving with it to ensure not only that everything works, but that I get to know how to handle the basics.
Unfortunately, I have had no success with the strobe at all. I have 400 speed film loaded into the camera, and the f/stop knob turned, as per the manual advice, to f8.
Like this, I can take photos without a problem. However, when I attach the strobe, and set it to AUTO, the manual tells me that an indication light on the rear of the strobe should light for a period of about 2 seconds when I am at the correct distance to the subject. Unfortunately, the light never lights in any circumstances, or at any ambient light level.
I then tried changing the strobe to ON, but still find that I can take pictures in any light level, but the strobe simply never fires. I know power is to the strobe, since the top orange light is always lit and the strobe emits a constant high pitched whine when on, but have so far been utterly unsuccessfull in getting the thing to work. Both infared windows have also been checked and cleaned, and are not blocked.
Can anybody please advise?