Comments on: Elinchrom Skyport and Sigma EF-530 DG Super compatibility fix

By: Juha

Juha — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:38:54 +0000

My dad did the cable . It’s very easy to do if you can solder and have about the right size capacitor at hand. It’s working in 99.9% of shots . The only problem I have experienced is that in some shots I have had to use 1/160 shutter (instead of 1/200). Using a smaller capacitor might fix this. Happy shooting

By: Paul Kremer

Paul Kremer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:43:27 +0000

Juha, did you actually purchase this cable and find it a solution to the problem? I just experienced this same frustrating problem at my last wedding. The Sigma EF-530 DG (which I LOVE on the camera) would only fire a percentage of the time. I got maybe a 33% success rate. I put my Pentax flash back in and went right back to reliable performance.

Did you actually find the answer to the problem? Or was this just something you thought ‘might’ solve the problem?

By: Juha

Juha — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:53:24 +0000

Sorry, I have no knowledge about flashzebra cables

Vocational schools in Finland used to do small jobs for people cheaply, so asking from schools with electronics department might be one option.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:35:33 +0000

I have the exact same setup and exact same problem. Very frustrating.

So you soldered a capacitor (47 micro farads) to the plug of your hotshoe-flash -wire?

Do you know whether or not the flashzebras vivitar-cable would work directly with the Sigma 530 DG Super as well? Probably yes I would guess.

Best,
Tuomas