MOUNTING AND ATTACHING FLASHES
You can mount the necessary shoes, brackets or Base Ball for your lighting onto the threaded holes on the top of the hand
grips. Use of the Aquatica TLC Strobe Arm System is recommended.
There are three 1/4”-20 threaded holes on the bottom of the housing that can also be used for various applications. For
example, a mounting tray can be fitted on the bottom of the housing.
Lastly a 1/4”-20 threaded hole on top of the housing is ready to accept an Aquatica bracket or Base Ball that can hold a
focusing light or an extra strobe arm.
Strobe setup:
Your Aquatica 5D Mk III Pro Digital housing is supplied with two Nikonos type connectors which are in turn connected to a
switch board circuit. (The A5D Mk III housing can also be supplied with a single Ikelite bulkheads connector).
The strobes sync cords O-ring should be lubricated with the recommended O-Ring lubricant from your strobe manufacturer,
Also advisable is to put a light coat of the lubricant on the threads of this connector, doing so reduces the risk of corrosion.
Your Canon Digital camera design does not allow flashes to be connected directly to the camera and be used in eTTL unless
they are original Canon flashes in third party housing with the required connector and cords.
On top of your housing, you will find two Nikonos type bulkhead connectors, the main and secondary connectors are wired
through a switch board that gives the user the option of alternating between TTL and Manual flash exposure. (By default
you housing is delivered with the switch board set to full manual), if eTTL exposure is desired then it can be made in either
of the two following methods:
1) By using a single flash from Canon (or other brand eTTL compatible brand) in a designated underwater housing con
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nected with a 6 pins TTL sync cord to a compatible 6 pins connectors on your Aquatica housing.
2) By using an external eTTL converter connected to the main Nikonos type 6 pins connector on your Aquatica housing. On
this converter, one or two underwater strobes with compatible TTL cords can then connected, (confirm compatibility of the
strobes and converter with their respective manufacturers).
Set up instruction for eTTL operation
Using the tip of a pen push the switches 1, 2, 3 & 4 to the ON (up) position, this will
activate the connections on your main 6 pins bulkhead connector allowing eTTL
communication between the camera and the housed flash or eTTL converter.
Set up instruction for manual operation
All switches must be in the OFF (lower) position, in this case all eTTL connections
are disabled and only the ground and sync are left active, this will allow two underwater strobes or housed flashes to be
connected directly via the main and secondary bulkhead.
1 2 3 4
ON GTS
ON
OFF
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR STROBE SYNC CORD O-RINGS: You should only use to the recommended O-ring
lubricant from your strobes manufacturer on your sync cords O-ring and never on your Aquatica housing
O-rings. Some lubricant may not be compatible with the material used in our or other manufacturer O-ring
materials, swelling and damage to the O-ring could results from doing so.
Some sync cord on the market have been known to contain poor quality and highly conductive material in the
construction of the bulkhead plug, removing the sync cord frequently, cleaning the threads and lubricating
them is the first step in preventing the sync cord from locking up in the thread due to the sync cord corrosion
built up.
