sony mavica cd200 setting hints anyone?...

[Birdman]

I have a Sony Mavica CD-200 with an Ikelite housing and a Ikelite DS-50 strobe and TTL slave sensor.

I would appreciate if anyone with experience with a Sony Mavica could share their experience with the settings they use.

I have results now from two trips, and I must say they have not been what I have been hoping for, althougth there are some shots I will keep.

Anyhow I would like to try to benefit from others' experiences, if possible.

Thanks

 

[TwoBitTxn]

I'm interested as well. I have the 400 and I have been tossing around the idea of getting a housing for it.

What have been your experiences with it? What don't you like?

TwoBit

 

[Birdman]

My experience with the setup is positive in the sense that I do have pictures that I will keep from my first two outings. The not so positive side is that I wish more pics turned out, but there has to be a long learning curve I would imagine. The Ikelite housing is a tank, all the controls work perfectly, and it handles beautifully underwater.

Some of the things that I am trying to work through are that the strobe without a diffuser my first time out tended to towards over exposure. My second time out when I put the diffuser on, now leads to the under-exposure side of the spectrum on many shots. The comparison is not perfect since my first time out I had the TTL sensitivity set on min and pointed towards the internal flash in a forwards direction. The second time out I had the TTL sens. on max and pointed thirty degrees or so to the rear (something I picked up from a thread on digitaldiver.net). I have also read that preflash saps the power from the strobe sufficiently that it will be underpowered with a diffuser in place. There is a manual controller that Ikelite sells, and I am tempted to use that since its much cheaper than another strobe so I can keep using the diffuser. But like I say I am completely new at this, and I don't even know for a fact that the cd200 uses a preflash; I just read somewhere that most digitals do. I also opted for iso 400 rather than auto for my second outing where as I left it on auto the first go round. Occasionally on macro close ups some shadows appear green.

 

[TwoBitTxn]

Thanks for your response.

Sorry I can't help you in return.

TwoBit