Ikelite Lite-Link

[Broderick]

I purchased an Ikelite Lite-Link a few months ago and now have the time to mess with the thing. As luck would have it I can't find the instructions and have some questions. Any help would be great.

1) I want the Strobe that is attached to the
Ikelite Lite-Link to be my main light and the Strobe attached to the hot shoe to be a fill light. My question is - if I set the exposure on the camera and the attached hot shoe strobe to f/5.6 and the f/stop number on the slaved strobe to f/8 will the image be overexposed since the combonation of the two exposure will
equal f/11.5? or will the TTL sensor take care of the exposure giving me an exposure of f/5.6 as set on the lens? In my mind if the later is the case then fill side should be exposed right and the side from which the slaved strobe lit would be over exposed.

2) Do I need to set the film speed on the slaved strobe to match that of the actual film speed or will the TTL sensor take care of the difference?

Thanks for any help that can be given.

Broderick

[Bob_ORourk]

Set the ikelite strobe to the same ASA as the on camera strobe. Set the "slave" strobe to manual and set the manual setting to 1/4 or 1/8 or 1/16 so the distane to subject is in the ball park.

I set my slave at 45 deg angle or 90 degrees, depending on the effect I want. The on camera strobe is set to -2 stops, usually and the camera strobe duration and llllight measurement turns off the slave at the appropriate time.
The ratio of slave to on camera unit determines the "directioon" of lite on the subject and the differntial effect.

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