An interesting thing happened last week... I was shooting a college baseball player with studio lights on 35mm equipment, Pentax LX and Nikon D1 to be exact. I decided to shoot a roll on 6x7 using my 67II, in case the image needs to be used for a poster design. Well, as bad luck has it, the lights wouldn't fire. My assistant, asked "Do you have to turn on the PC socket or something on the 67II?" Knowing that you don't, and that I had fired strobes successfully with a different sync cord, I replied "No." Since I was just shooting the medium format as backup, I asked my assistant to fire the strobes via the test button on the main power pack as I called out "ready, set, fire." Believe it or not, we got one good frame! The rest of the roll was pitch black.

After buying a new, heavy duty, gold plated household to PC cord and testing it out, it works every time!

Moral to the story, test your old sync cords if you get the new 67II!

Regards, Randy

-- Randy Darst (darstdesign@cfu.net), January 18, 2001