remote strobe and camera settings

[diverdad 7]

Hi all, I have a question regarding remote strobes. I have a Nikon D50 in a Ikelite housing with ds125 strobes. I bought a full immersion remote sensor the other year and I have attached it to a Ikelite sub strobe 50 I used to use on my trusty Nikonos.

 

When I take a picture the strobes fire as does the remote strobe but the timing seems to be out and the flash from the remote strobe is not visible when I review the image.

 

My question is what settings do you all use when using remote strobes?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Lee

[newmanl 15]

Hi Lee,

 

It might be because you are firing the main (those attached to the housing) strobes in TTL mode. As you likely know, the TTL mode uses a pre-flash to attain its exposure setting (flash out-put) before the main flash intended to expose the frame. The pre-flash is something like 1/32 power of a full dump, but often enough to trigger (too early) a remote strobe on an optical sensor. There are two ways to get the slave to fire on in sync with the main strobes - fire the main strobes in manual mode, or switch the optical slave sensor to a setting that ignores the pre-flash.

 

I'm speaking from Canon/Ikelite experience, so if Nikon is that different, this may not help. Good luck!

 

Lee

[diverdad 7]

Thanks for the info Lee, I did have the strobe working a couple of years ago but could not remermber the settings!!.

I had a good go over the last couple of weeks in the pool, but no joy.

I will have another go tonight (it is our club night).

 

Thanks

 

Lee

[diverdad 7]

Jackpot! perhaps I should have read the manual!!

I know what I wanted but I just could not figure out how to do it; I now know to get from TTL to Manual I need to press and hold the two mode buttons at the bottom left of the camera!

 

Thanks Lee

 

Lee