Now that Uwe has made a wide angle wet lens adaptor for my LX-5 I now get the true 24mm of my lens I am thinking about adding a second strobe. Given that I have single bulkhead I have three options - dual sync cord, t-adaptor, or a slave. I am leaning towards buying a t-adaptor because my strobes come with a sync cord and I was thinking that it would be better to have two single cords and an adaptor rather than a single and a dual. The pit fall more connections to foul things up. Before going that route I thought I would check with others.
Single bulkhead - two strobes - sync cables?
Started by allen, Jan 15 2012 11:08 AM
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 11:08 AM
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 03:08 PM
Yes, you are right Allen. No doubt that the T adaptor will be the best option, even more since you have the sync cords already.
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 03:17 PM
Okay so next question. I found one that I going to buy used. Subtronic commented that when using it and having one strobe on and the other off that it may not work with my combination of strobes and camera. I never really thought about the internals of a T but I assume that there is circuitry at work here that is detecting the strobes and communicating with them. There is no TTL going on strictly manual operation. Can someone give me an idea of what might going on. Does the same happen with a T cable?
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Posted 09 February 2012 - 01:03 AM
Electrically speaking, a T-cord and a dual sync cord are the same IMHO. What kind of strobes are you using? I am sure that it would work, since you are only going to shoot manual, if you have connected only trigger and ground.
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Posted 13 February 2012 - 08:39 AM
Electrically speaking, a T-cord and a dual sync cord are the same IMHO. What kind of strobes are you using? I am sure that it would work, since you are only going to shoot manual, if you have connected only trigger and ground.
That was my thinking. I am using subtronic 160s with the cable. I should get the cable this week and will hook up my one 160 to it and see what happens. I will be ordering my second later on in the spring.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 07:43 PM
To answer my own question, I received the T and tried it with a single strobe. It worked fine no matter how it was connected. So I am set. I just need to do a bit of clean up as the previous owner used way too much lube with it.
