Manual Fiber Optic Transmitter for Ikelite DL and DLM Underwater Housings // Installation and Use

The Manual Fiber Optic Transmitter is designed for use with any Ikelite 200DL or 50DL, or select 200DLM underwater housings. It attaches to a camera’s hotshoe and allows you to trigger a wide variety of underwater strobes by fiber optic cord.
In this video, Ikelite President & CEO Jean Rydberg tells you when and why to use it, and how to install it on your Ikelite housing.
Why use the Manual Fiber Optic Transmitter?
- You want to use one of the entry-level strobes that don’t have an electrical bulkhead.
You want to use fiber optic cords to eliminate extra waterproof connections.
- You want to disconnect your strobe cords underwater for some reason. Imagine getting back to the boat at the end of a dive and wanting to shoot some split shots using natural light without having your strobes weighing you down. With fiber optic cords you can pop them off, use our unique quick release mount to disconnect your strobe arms, and hand the whole assembly up to the boat crew.
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Equipment Shown:
Manual Fiber Optic Transmitter # 44700
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DS230 Underwater Strobe # 40230US
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High Sensitivity Optical Converter # 4405
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200DL Underwater Housing for Canon EOS R5:
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Looking for more information on underwater photography? We have hundreds of pages of tutorials, cheat sheets, videos, and inspiration on our website in the Ikelite Photo School:
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Jean Rydberg, daughter of Ike Brigham, became President & CEO of Ikelite in 2006. Jean fully embraces the need to travel outside of her hometown of Indianapolis to experience good diving. She believes that any camera is capable of amazing results in the right hands, and anyone can become a great photographer given the right advice.

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I can’t get this to work with my a7rv. Any advice or tips?!

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Make sure the batteries are in the right orientation and the switch on the battery holder is “ON.” If you’re still having trouble email us via [e-mail] and we’ll troubleshoot it.

[@anderson12497]

@@ikelite thank you. I was able to figure it out. I’m not sure why but I connected my godox flash and then the one on the housing and now it works