Marriard
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Buy INON strobes. They are small, reliable, easy to travel with and take AA batteries so you only need one battery charger to travel with.
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jlyle:oly5050user -
You are correct, the PT-015 housing does not have a bulkhead that will allow you to connect the camera's hotshoe to an external strobe for TTL. With the 5050/PT-015 combination, strobes are manually controlled. Heinrich, in Germany, manufactured a gizmo that slides into the hot shoe and a pickup that attaches to the outside of the housing. I'll look around and see if I can find a link - I don't know if it's still available.
Having said that, I found manual control of my Ike strobes to give me excellent results with my 5050/PT-015. TTL is highly over-rated as the camera is often confused by background light u//w.
Here: click on "gallery" and then select "Olympus TTL converter with IR link".
http://www.heinrichsweikamp.net/blitz/indexe.htm
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