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Shooting with multiple strobes and a Sea & Sea housing?
Anyone shoot with a Sea & Sea housing with more than 2 strobes?
I just need to vent a bit - but maybe someone else has experience in this issue and can lend some ideas!
I just started shooting with the new Sea & Sea MDX housings - got a D300 & finally a D3 (very excited to get the D3 underwater in Indonesia next week!). I shoot with 3 strobes and have encountered an issue that has me going crazy...
The S&S housing has 2 bulkheads, but one is a regular bulkhead and the other is only for the TTL converter. The TTL converter supposedly only takes two single strobe cords, otherwise you can overload it. And the manual states that the TTL converter and normal bulkhead do not work together. However - they do (or did) seem to work together, where I had two strobes in the converter and one in the regular bulkhead, which seemed to work fine ...until it didn't. Eventually it got pissed off and just stopped working altogether. Fortunately it was my last day - unfortunately it was a gorgeous dive filled with colorful soft coral and big bright fans and everything that sent my underwater imaging heart aflutter. So when I returned I hopped on the phone with Sea&Sea for a while and ultimately decided that the solution may be to rewire the housing to just simply have two regular bulkheads and remove the TTL converter bulkhead - which is fine with me because I don't use TTL for wide angle, only macro, and I have an entire separate housing for that.
So long story short - I will be working directly with Sea&Sea to come up with a solution and to test set ups that work for those who shoot with 3 or more strobes. More photographers are shooting with multiple strobe set-ups these days and the housing manufacturers need to hear feedback on our needs. So please post here any additional thoughts or experiences you have shooting with multiple strobes and I assure you that your feedback will become part of the solution.
Once you shoot wide angle with three strobes there's no going back to two :)
I just need to vent a bit - but maybe someone else has experience in this issue and can lend some ideas!
I just started shooting with the new Sea & Sea MDX housings - got a D300 & finally a D3 (very excited to get the D3 underwater in Indonesia next week!). I shoot with 3 strobes and have encountered an issue that has me going crazy...
The S&S housing has 2 bulkheads, but one is a regular bulkhead and the other is only for the TTL converter. The TTL converter supposedly only takes two single strobe cords, otherwise you can overload it. And the manual states that the TTL converter and normal bulkhead do not work together. However - they do (or did) seem to work together, where I had two strobes in the converter and one in the regular bulkhead, which seemed to work fine ...until it didn't. Eventually it got pissed off and just stopped working altogether. Fortunately it was my last day - unfortunately it was a gorgeous dive filled with colorful soft coral and big bright fans and everything that sent my underwater imaging heart aflutter. So when I returned I hopped on the phone with Sea&Sea for a while and ultimately decided that the solution may be to rewire the housing to just simply have two regular bulkheads and remove the TTL converter bulkhead - which is fine with me because I don't use TTL for wide angle, only macro, and I have an entire separate housing for that.
So long story short - I will be working directly with Sea&Sea to come up with a solution and to test set ups that work for those who shoot with 3 or more strobes. More photographers are shooting with multiple strobe set-ups these days and the housing manufacturers need to hear feedback on our needs. So please post here any additional thoughts or experiences you have shooting with multiple strobes and I assure you that your feedback will become part of the solution.
Once you shoot wide angle with three strobes there's no going back to two :)
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Permalink Reply by MARCELLINO PIO RUSCA on -
I use two Sea&sea TS-100 strobes from 3 years.From 2 years I have a fixed big light under the camera for night and deep-dive shots. The 3rd sorce of light required an accurated work to modify the supports, cause the Sea&Sea is designed only for 2 light sources.
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Tepper on -
Hey...i have the d300s and mdx 300 housing and theres a word going around about some problems with the ttl converter and that system
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