HeinrichsWeikamp converter for Nikon iTTL

Peter Rowlands · Issue 40, Jan/Feb 2008 · pp. 20–21

Products mentioned: HeinrichsWeikamp External converter for Nikon iTTL, Ikelite D80 housing, Nikon D70, Subal housing, Nikonos V

When I cut my teeth in underwater photography a flashgun was triggered basically by touching two wires together and that for me was technology I could both understand and accept. Even when the Nikonos V arrived with its 5 pin TTL flash system I could still understand how it worked because it was basically 5 wires making the contact between camera and flashgun. Everything was going swimmingly in the (good?) old film days, especially if you used a housed Nikon camera. Their TTL system never changed from camera to camera so if you upgraded your camera you could still use your existing flash. TTL flash was the norm and became so established that many newcomers to underwater photography had never used anything else and so had little need to understand the flash exposure basics of aperture and distance. Then the digital age arrived and, to be perfectly honest, I thought the camera manufacturer…