Strobe techno-geek questions

[Rickg]

One end of the cable goes in the strobe (of course). The other end goes where?

I just went through the same thing with the Inon D2000 that I bought from a friend who was upgrading. Inon doesn't have a dedicated Canon A720IS kit so I bought a "generic" Inon fiber optic cable system from Reef Photo & Video (and there support is great). Here are the instructions (courtesy of Reef Photo & Video) they provided regarding how to set up the fiber optic cable.

Reef Photo & Video Support Center - KnowledgeBase - Installing '3M Dual Lock' Style Fiber Optic Sync Cables

 

[Diver Dennis]

I don't use that type of strobe connection but interesting and informative post Rick.

 

[runway1]

The other end will attach to the front of housing in front of the internal strobe. I use an Inon 2000 with the A620 in the Canon housing. It's a two piece attachment. One peice is stuck with an adhesive backing to the housing. It has velco on the front. The other piece is a hard velco piece at the end of the fiber optic cable. It's sounds a little funky but works well. Yes every now and then the velco comes off during a dive, probably from inadvertably snagging the cable on something. But it's no big deal just to stick it back on. I always use my Inon on manual. I keep my camera flash setting to 1/4 power, works every time, no problems getting my strobe to flash.

Ahhhhh, no wonder I couldn't find a connection "port". It's stuck on with adhesive and velcro:11: Thanks!