Ikelite Canon Rebel XT eTTL2

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For two weeks I used Ikelite’s newest dSLR housing for the Canon Rebel XT in the Bahamas on back-to-back trips I hosted. I used two zoom lenses for medium close and wide angle shooting (I’m not a macro devotee.) Daily I transferred the “keepers” to my 30 GB Photo iPod and then evaluated the results on my 20” G5 iMac upon returning home. The Ikelite eTTL2 circuitry does a great job!

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My last SLR film camera was a “poor man’s” F100, the Nikon N80. While it had it’s detractors (surprisingly due to the low cost, go figure it produced beautiful images on fine grained slide film at a cost of 1/3 the Nikon F100 body. This allowed me to have two bodies for surface shooting and a back-up in case of the dreaded F-word. Friends and I conducted tests and then “lied” to the camera for wide angle shooting. Using a Nikon 18-35 mm lens and 20 mm fixed lens we routinely dialed in -1.3 EV compensation that resulted in the flash “quenching” light output from a full power dump. Dependent on the f-stop selected and strobe to subject distance this produced very good exposures. Somewhere around 85-90% accurate for wide angle shooting! This is simply a variation on the technique discussed by Jim Church and Howard hall in their books on doubling the ISO on a Nikonos V for wide angle shooting.
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