TTL (or lack of) on DS125 & Canon450D

[Justin Owen]

Set your kit up and point the strobe directly at the camera.

If anyone else tries this, make sure you look away from the strobe before you pull the trigger!!! D'oh!

Total wipeout, and as i'm still seeing stars i can safely say its firing on full power! Didn't get chance to call cams u/w but will do tomorrow...

[JtM]

OK, after a chat with Cams Underwater it looks like this has been resolved.

The problem is with the hot-shoe connection to the camera - basically, if you put the hot show on all the way, the pins will actually go past the connection points on the camera. You have to pull the hot-shoe connector back about 2/3mm to ensure the pins line up.

I'm now getting the TTL info displayed on the back of the camera and the output is being adjusted properly. Apparently this is an issue for more than one Ikelite housing!?

Will just have to make sure the pins are lined up and its working properly before dives - as it took a bit of jiggling about to get the connection.

[Justin Owen]

Oops - appears i have two usernames!

[incapete]

OK, after a chat with Cams Underwater it looks like this has been resolved.

The problem is with the hot-shoe connection to the camera - basically, if you put the hot show on all the way, the pins will actually go past the connection points on the camera. You have to pull the hot-shoe connector back about 2/3mm to ensure the pins line up.

I'm now getting the TTL info displayed on the back of the camera and the output is being adjusted properly. Apparently this is an issue for more than one Ikelite housing!?

Will just have to make sure the pins are lined up and its working properly before dives - as it took a bit of jiggling about to get the connection.

thanks for the update - I'll have too watch out for that!