Can the Olympus C3030 be used with White Lightening studio strobes via slave? I know there is no PC sync port. So... any ideas on how I can use this great camera with these great studio lights?

Thanks

-- SHawn Patrello (patrello@swbell.net), July 16, 2000

Answers

If you can set the camera for manual exposure, you should be able to use the built in flash to fire the studio lights

-- Jonathan Ratzlaff (jonathanr@clrtech.com), July 16, 2000.

Shawn,

I was having the same difficulty as well (no flash cord for my studio strobes), so I tried using a slave on my Novatron power pack. The results were inconsistent - sometimes the slaves would fire, most times not. The slave trigger has to be pretty sensitive, because the flash on the camera does not put out a great deal of light.

The next thing I'm going to try is mounting the flash slave on the camera and running a cord to the power pack. It's kinda Rube-Goldberg- ish, but I really hate not being able to use my strobes.

Tom

-- Tom Pierce (tlpierce@afterimagephoto.com), July 17, 2000.

Use Olympus special cable to connect the C3030 to the strobes: FL-CB04 TTL-to-PC Sync. Item # 200 661 ($39.95 street) TTL 5 pin connector to PC Sync Socket (female). Use this cable to attach the C-3000/3030Zoom to a standard PC Sync cable. External PC Sync flashes or studio strobes are examples of equipment that would be connected.

-- Moshe Ronen (mronen@netvision.net.il), July 24, 2000.