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Ikelite has announced formal release of the Fiber Optic Adapter, price $80 ??? See:
Fiber Optic Adapter for DS Substrobes
This is cute. Look at the thumbnails below. It plugs directly into the strobe, so you need no electrical cable and one less O-ring. It can accept both Sea&Sea fiber plugs and Inon plugs, at least the ones pictured. Kudos for the mechanical design.
Limitations: It is manual only, so you set strobe power on the strobe. It works only on DS strobes, current models. And your camera has to be able to emit a flash; unfortunately many Ikelite DSLR housings do not allow the flash to raise, so... check yours. [In another forum, I recall seeing a hotshoe LED flasher that might be able to drive this optically even with the flash closed. Experimental, but interesting.]
I suggested this Fiber Adapter product concept to Heinrichs Weikamp a few months ago. They replied there would be insufficient demand to justify the engineering effort and cost. Hmmm...
Fiber Optic Adapter for DS Substrobes
This is cute. Look at the thumbnails below. It plugs directly into the strobe, so you need no electrical cable and one less O-ring. It can accept both Sea&Sea fiber plugs and Inon plugs, at least the ones pictured. Kudos for the mechanical design.
Limitations: It is manual only, so you set strobe power on the strobe. It works only on DS strobes, current models. And your camera has to be able to emit a flash; unfortunately many Ikelite DSLR housings do not allow the flash to raise, so... check yours. [In another forum, I recall seeing a hotshoe LED flasher that might be able to drive this optically even with the flash closed. Experimental, but interesting.]
I suggested this Fiber Adapter product concept to Heinrichs Weikamp a few months ago. They replied there would be insufficient demand to justify the engineering effort and cost. Hmmm...
