Re: Olympus TG-4 / PT-056 / UFL-3 Flash Problem
Hello.
I do not have an Olympus UFL-3 in front of me, so I might not be completely accurate here.
I believe on that strobe that there are two places that you can plug in the fibre optic. First try the 'other' place. I think you want to plug the fiber optic cable into the black receptical. Then try to fire the flash.
If that does not make any difference:
The best way to figure out what is going wrong, would be to borrow a 'good' fiber optic. I know that can be tough to do.
First question; When you have the camera in the housing and shoot something, you DO see the flash on the diffuser panel, correct? Just want to be sure that I understand your situation.
Try this- remove the fiber optic cable from the housing and from the strobe. Hold the strobe right up to the housing so that the light sensor is up against the white flash diffuser of the housing if you can. (The strobe will be aiming the opposite way from the camera.)
Fire the flash in your TG-4; did the strobe fire? If so, then I would really want to try a 'better' fiber optic cable. If it did not flash, then that test was 'inconclusive'.
Please let us know how it goes.
When you are ready to use two strobes with your setup there are quite a few options available.
The simplest way is to leave your one-strobe setup as is, then physically mount your 2nd strobe. Then run a fiber optic from the first strobe to the second (the 2nd will slave from the 1st.). You may find that TTL does not work well in this case, but it should work for manual.
When you get your seocnd strobe, buy the 2nd fiber optic cable with no connector on one end. Now remove the connector from your 1st fiber optic and you can insert the 'camera end' of BOTH fiber optic cables into this, and plug this into your fiber optic receptical on your camera housing. You can also use this double hole bush which accomplishes the same thing; advantage is that you can quickly remove one cable because it is only a friction fit, the disadvantage is that it is only a friction fit.