mmsweet 0 Posted September 14, 2008 (edited) every time i fire my canon 1ds mark 11 with inon d-2000 strobe - the "canon" battery flashes dead and no more pictures can be taken (seacam houseing)(flash batteries are new ) i put my canon 5d in the housing (not underwater it doesn't fit) and it fires the strobe perfectly with the same manual settings i also put a canon speedlite on the 1ds mark 11 and it works perfectly? i used my old ids mark 11 with no problems? this is a new one manual flash settings - maunal camera settings i tried this with 4 different batteries - they all flash the dead battery sign with one shot - however if i take the battery out and put it back in - the battery is still good - as long as the strobe is not used? any ideas? mike Edited September 14, 2008 by mmsweet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmsweet 0 Posted September 14, 2008 i am shooting manual with the flash on manual it works with my 5D (canon) and one of my canon 1dsmk11's but the second 1dsmk11 fired the strobe only like halfway - no picture is taken and the battery goes dead ..if i yank the battery and put it back in i notice the battery is not dead - but if i take another shot with the strobe - same thing - a sort of preflash/half flash - and a dead camera battery (the camera firmware is up to date) ..canons speedlite works fine on the same shoemount and my other cameras work fine with the strobe connected to the same seacam housing seacam housing i have no idea what this could be???? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmsweet 0 Posted September 14, 2008 noone ever had the flashing battery warning? after firing a strobe? and had to yank the battery to unfreeze the camera? throw me a bone;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drew 0 Posted September 16, 2008 mmsweet Please do not double post the same questions in 2 different sub-forums. Thanks As for your dilemma, check with Seacam. Could be a plethora of things. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
segal3 0 Posted September 16, 2008 If shooting manual strobes, have you removed the extra pins from the Seacam hotshoe connector? See Seacam's instructions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
james 0 Posted September 17, 2008 This happened to me when I forgot to remove the extra pins. Remove all pins but the center pin. Cheers James Share this post Link to post Share on other sites