Backscatter Frustration

[herman]

Why don't you take a photo of your camera set up as you use it for us to look at. Odds are your major problems are strobe placement and/or your internal flash.

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

Where do you get those long flexible arms??? Mine is barely half that long...

ScubaBoard members are notorious in my mind for extreme laziness. If you do a yahoo search for "flexible dive strobe arms" the first hit is an old page from Dive Magazine (UK - May 31, '06).

Bendy strobe arms are nothing new, but until now there haven't been any available to fit the Ikelite range of underwater camera housings. With the introduction of the 40cm quick-release flexible arm, manufactured by ManFishPhoto and distributed by BigBlueSquid, Ikelite housings are now being catered for. Designed to be easy to fit and release, the arms also allow the strobe to be positioned in any position, which is useful for creative lighting techniques, especially in macro photography.

Replacing "flexible dive" with "bendy" and yahoo searching again, there are more pages and pictures of Bendy arms but nothing officially Bendy on the first search page, but now you have a real Q for the SB sages.

Not coincidentally, those arms came with a full camera rig bought off eBay from a seller in the UK!

 

[slowhands]

The Loc Line flex hose is available online here:

ModularHose.com - Loc-Line Modular Hose System

The mount to a tray is available. Hose is available by length. There is one component that you may have to make, the strobe mount for your particular strobe. I had to fab one for Sea&Sea. It may be that competing brands of hose offer the strobe mount.

ScubaBoard Gallery - Olympus 7070 with PT-027, YS90, HW conv, LocLine