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Philippines, Southern Visayas route with the Philippine Siren

Started Oct 13, 2019 | Discussions thread
daveco2
daveco2 Contributing Member • Posts: 953
Re: Philippines, Southern Visayas route with the Philippine Siren

Barmaglot_07 wrote:

daveco2 wrote:

Have you received your test unit yet?

I have also been in contact with Pavel and he will be making a converter for my Seafrogs NG case with A7RII, but no word as yet as to delivery date.

I have, and in initial tests in air, it appears to be working well, although I haven't yet had a chance to take it underwater. My primary concern had been that the ST-100 sensors wouldn't be sensitive enough to get triggered by LEDs, but this appears to have been unfounded - both pre-flash and main flash fire correctly. I was going to wait for the Retras to arrive before I take it diving, but they have just been delayed again - this time to January - so I think I'll take a weekend trip to Eilat in a couple weeks and give it a spin. There are some fit issues, but nothing that prevents operation.

Good news on the converter. Sorry to hear about the Retra delay.

Are the LEDs on the converter attached to the board or are they off the board on wires? How do you align them with the two ports?

I’ve also read about in-camera control of strobes (for example, Manual and TTL switching). Is that type of control available with your unit?

For what reasons have you chosen to use the UwT converter rather than the camera flash for TTL?

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