Mark Derail
Contributor
The UW fiber optic kits, comes with the probes if you buy them new, has the male & female velcros and fiber optics.
The fiber optic cable is all black, except for the exposed ends about 1/8 of an inch.
You sandwich one end over the sensor - the velcro sticking to the strobe has a hole in the middle, that you align that piece of velcro over the sensor.
The other end goes where the flash lights up in front of the cam, on the housing.
The velcro is totally clear, not black or white, so it helps conduct the light.
Some fancier setups detect the flash intensity and strobe accordingly - haven't seen that yet.
I think that if you splurge 2k$ on an Aquatica aluminum housing, and get the appropriate adapters, you can go fully wired with high-end strobes.
I'm not sure, because the nex5 & nex5n have a weird Sony hotshoe for the flash.
Where the nex5n shines is it's HD video @ 60 frames per second. I would use it with appropriate LED flashlights - like three of them - of depth video.
Also since the sensor is so damn sensitive & great (very little moire at high ISO) I would not use strobes - just flashlights.
It's annoying have to wait for the strobes to charge up between shots, and if you want to shoot video at 80-100 feet the strobes are useless. Unless you get high end strobes that have an LED flashlight built-in.
Nope - the "cheap" yet "excellent" solution - sub-100$ flashlights, three or four of them. I would totally DIY hotglue to the housing the 4 flashlights, the surround the whole thing with a couple of extra-large tie-wraps, and applying more hotglue between the tie-wraps and the flashlights.
Even with shipping 215$ is cheap in comparison to what's out there currently. Even if rated for 40M I wouldn't take it below 25M.
Last - don't underestimate the high iso. Shooting with the lowest is always the best pic quality - but the nex5n has impressive results at ISO 6400. Almost as nice as my Olympus SP350 @ ISO 200, because of the 14MP over the SP350's 8MP.
IOW, good enough, and plenty sensitive to forego strobes. Look at the GoPro HD that gets nice video - yet I consider it crap in comparison the the Nex5n.
(better optics, better iso, better sensor)
The fiber optic cable is all black, except for the exposed ends about 1/8 of an inch.
You sandwich one end over the sensor - the velcro sticking to the strobe has a hole in the middle, that you align that piece of velcro over the sensor.
The other end goes where the flash lights up in front of the cam, on the housing.
The velcro is totally clear, not black or white, so it helps conduct the light.
Some fancier setups detect the flash intensity and strobe accordingly - haven't seen that yet.
I think that if you splurge 2k$ on an Aquatica aluminum housing, and get the appropriate adapters, you can go fully wired with high-end strobes.
I'm not sure, because the nex5 & nex5n have a weird Sony hotshoe for the flash.
Where the nex5n shines is it's HD video @ 60 frames per second. I would use it with appropriate LED flashlights - like three of them - of depth video.
Also since the sensor is so damn sensitive & great (very little moire at high ISO) I would not use strobes - just flashlights.
It's annoying have to wait for the strobes to charge up between shots, and if you want to shoot video at 80-100 feet the strobes are useless. Unless you get high end strobes that have an LED flashlight built-in.
Nope - the "cheap" yet "excellent" solution - sub-100$ flashlights, three or four of them. I would totally DIY hotglue to the housing the 4 flashlights, the surround the whole thing with a couple of extra-large tie-wraps, and applying more hotglue between the tie-wraps and the flashlights.
Even with shipping 215$ is cheap in comparison to what's out there currently. Even if rated for 40M I wouldn't take it below 25M.
Last - don't underestimate the high iso. Shooting with the lowest is always the best pic quality - but the nex5n has impressive results at ISO 6400. Almost as nice as my Olympus SP350 @ ISO 200, because of the 14MP over the SP350's 8MP.
IOW, good enough, and plenty sensitive to forego strobes. Look at the GoPro HD that gets nice video - yet I consider it crap in comparison the the Nex5n.
(better optics, better iso, better sensor)
The way you get around the shadow problem is to aim low and crop or just crop the shadow out. 
