Hi folks,

..first of all i had to sand away the raised edges at the rear side of the MB16 only (see picture/step 1). I used a simple file. Then i attached the MB 16 to the camera. It didn't work at all. I recognized, that there was a gap (I think the MB 16 without the raised edge is not well centered), so i could turn the MB-16 slightly around the tripod hole and heard the sensor contacts of the CR123 "klicking". Okay, i thought, no Problem. I pushed the MB 16 against the sensor contacts. It was dead. I pushed it away from them, it worked, but without flash - so i expected, that there was no contact to the battery plug. After some more tries, i decided to get the MB16 centered by wrapping around some "Tesa" (see picture/step (2)). Now it worked as described.

Im not really satisfied with the solution of wrapping some tesa, but for the first it works. I have to think about a better solution, maybe someone here has one.

And here the sample Pictures:
http://www.pbase.com/dannerw

Kind regards, WIlfried


wilfried danner wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> S2 supplied with:
> - Tamron 24-70 AF
> - MB-16 with 4x1500 mAH NiMHs
>
> Camera settings:
> ISO 200
> Preview-Mode on -> no storing of pictures.
> AF mode Single
> AF illuminator on
> Focus priority
> Flash correction +/-0.0
>
> Shooting in a very dark room (metering told 1"/f4.5 without flash)
> with changing distance every shot between 2 meters and 4 meters
> so every shot used AF illuminator, AF-Motor and Flash. I also
> changed accidently the focal length of the lens between 24, 50 and
> 70 mm.
>
> After 400 Shots without the NiMHs going weak i stopped this boring
> job.
>
> Do you want to know more about how to fit the MB-16 to the S2??
>
> Yours, wilfried