Ikelite Canon S5 IS User Manual

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The Lens Port is factory sealed, do not remove.

Treat the glass in the lens port as a camera lens. After use, rinse

and gently dry the lens port to avoid water spotting. To clean

use a mild soap solution or lens cleaner.
Do not use alcohol or window cleaner on the Lens Port.
The Lens Port is threaded so that accessory lenses can be

screwed onto the port. The threads are very fine, take care not

to cross thread accessory lenses.

The housing port has a 67mm thread which accepts the optional

#6420 Ikelite W-20 Wide-Angle Lens and other manufacturers

(67mm) screw thread style lenses. These lenses can be screwed

onto the lens port above or below water. These lenses are

designed to have water between the front of the port and the

accessory lens. Make sure no air bubbles are trapped between

the port and the accessory lens. There may be slight vignetting

when these wide angle lenses are installed. Any vignetting that

occurs can be eliminated

by zooming the camera

lens slightly. To properly

light subjects when using

a wide angle lens an

external strobe should

be used. Due to the wide

coverage of the wide

angle lenses, the DS125

Substrobe is recommended

or two DS51 Substrobes.

Wide Angle Lens

Housing shown with

accessory wide angle lens.

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If you do not have an external flash the camera’s built-in flash

can be used. See Diffuser instructions.

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A diffuser and deflector are

included with the housing. The

diffuser is white transparent

plastic. The deflector is also

white but is not transparent.
To install the diffuser or deflector

spread the port clamp at the

spring end and slide over the lens

port. The white plastic should be

placed in front of the camera flash.

The port clamp should be pushed back

against the front of the housing.

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The diffuser should be installed when using the camera’s built

in flash. When shooting with the camera’s built-in flash at

approximately 2 feet (0.6 m) or less, zoom the lens to

maximum telephoto. The lens port on the housing blocks a

portion of the light from the camera’s built-in flash when

shooting close up. If you do not zoom to maximum telephoto,

a shadow may appear in the lower left corner of close-up

photographs.

(You can test this above water)

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The deflector should be installed when using an external strobe

such as the DS51 or DS125 Substrobe and DS Sensor. The

deflector is required when using the camera’s built-in flash to

trigger the EV Controller. The deflector will redirect the

camera’s flash to the DS Sensor or EV Controller which controls

the external strobe.

Diffuser/Deflector

material

Port Clamp

Spring

Spread to Install

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This housing has Conversion Circuitry built into the housing.

When used with current model Ikelite DS Substrobes the

Conversion Circuitry provides Canon eTTL flash exposure. In the

TTL mode the camera controls the light output of the external

strobe(s) to obtain properly exposed images. The Conversion

Circuitry is powered by the Ikelite DS Substrobe when

connected to the housing with the #4103.51 single or #4103.52

dual sync cords with a blue band. See page 13 for DS Substrobe

compatibility with Conversion Circuitry.

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Any Ikelite DS Substrobe(s) can be used in the manual mode

when connected with the #4103.51 single or #4103.52 dual sync

cord with a blue band. In the manual mode different power

settings on the DS Substrobe can be selected to obtain a

properly exposed image.

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The Conversion Circuitry is automatically disabled when used

with a Non-DS Substrobe. These Substrobes can be used in their

manual mode utilizing any power settings provided on the

Substrobe.

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The Conversion Circuitry is automatically disabled when used

with a Non Ikelite strobe. These strobes can be used in their

manual mode utilizing any power settings provided on the strobe.