Customer Reviews

Olympus FL-20 Electronic Flash for SP series, C5000, C750, C770, C5060, C7070, C8080, E1, E300 & E500 Digital Cameras

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I just bought this flash to match with my Olympus C5050. This flash works flawlessly. Don't be fool by its small size; this one is exceed my expectation for versatility for power, portability, and very cute too. You will save lots of battery power from your camera . This thing sure beat my Promaster 5000 series with Olympus module. If you own the Olympus C or E model this is must have thing. Highly recommended !!!!!

Short and sweet review. This flash works great with your Olympus E-P1 or E-P2. It costs less than the FL-14 flash, is smaller, sits higher above the lens for less red-eye, and if you have the silver E-P1 or black E-P2 it looks better too.

Although not advertised, if you check out the Olympus support web page, you will see that this flash is fully compatible with the E-P1 and E-P2.

I just bought this for Christmas because our 8 month old has such bad red eye, even with the red eye prevention feature in my digital camera. So many previous shots have had to be edited to get rid his red eye it was getting frustrating and was becoming a chore. It is great.

Since I don't like to edit photos, except for the occassional overall color saturation, I knew from my 35mm photography that the best way to get rid of red-eye was an external flash / one not mounted on the camera. I'm more of a digital photographer than a digital imager, and I'd rather spend time doing other things if I can by taking a better photo rather than using an photo editor(not that there's anything wrong with that, that's just my priority)

I shot 73 pictures on Christmas with my Olympus C4000 zoom(great camera), and didn't get any red eye. Now his eyes look blue, like they're supposed to. I can now print the photos right away and not be disappointed with red eye.

The only downside is that with the flash and bracket, you can't just pop the camera in a pocket, and it looks more like a pro's 35mm camera. But I will only attach it when I know I will need it so that won't bother me.

Even when it's attached, you don't need to turn it on for every shot. There are several flash options, that include TTL metering, and you can have it work with or without your camera's flash. The flash adds longer range to your camera for flash pics as well.

I bought the FL-20 for my Evolt E-500 DSLR and was very disappointed that I'm actually returning it. It's just not powerful enough for a DSLR. It's good for some simple close-up shots. I would not recommend it for the E500, or probably the E300 either. Sounds like it works well with the other type of cameras.

If you have a DSLR, splurge on the FL-50, which is what I am looking at doing.

I bought this flash originally to use with my Olympus C-700 UZ camera because I had found that when using the Olympus wide-angle converter lens on my camera, the diameter of the wide-angle lens was so large that it blocked off the beam from the cameras built in flash. Because of this every shot I took had a big black half circle shadow across the bottom of the frame.

To eliminate this problem and mount the light source as far away as possible from the lens I decided to buy the Olympus FL-20 Flash unit, the FL-BK01 right angle flash bracket, and the FLCB01 TTL sync cable to electrically connect the flash to the camera.

Once I started using this set up I immediately started getting the results I needed right away. The FL-20 flash had greater output and greater coverage than the built in flash. Exposures were perfect because the flash worked with the cameras TTL metering system via the FLCB01 cable. You can even stand a little further back from the subject when shooting because the higher light output of this unit gives you greater reach. Red eye was also eliminated because by using the flash grip I offset the axis of the flash beam away from the axis of the camera lens. The FL-20 even comes with a little snap on diffuser lens you can use to widen the area of coverage of the flash beam. It runs on 2 AA batteries. I used the flash with the rechargeable type AA batteries.

I was very happy I bought this unit and on my indoor picture taking sessions it became the standard fare for me as far as equipment was concerned. Down the road I did up grade to the more powerful FL-50 flash, but for most over your average family and friends type picture taking sessions the Olympus FL-20 is all the flash you will ever need.

This is a light weight flash unit for Olympus cameras. It works as advertised to add more shooting distance over the camera's build-in flash. I bought this one because my Olympus digital camera is also light weight. It would be ridiculous to drag along a large flash unit that's bigger than the camera itself!

I wanted this flash to compliment and improve my Olympus 350 Digital camera. The built in flash was inadequate for some of the photos that I wanted to take. When I found out the price of this flash from Olympus I did not want to pay as much for the flash than I paid for the camera. After looking on Amazon.com for the same flash, I happily found the SAME flash for a resonable price. The service and delivery of the flash was fast. The flash is excellent and works flawlessly. I am happy and completely satisfied with this product.

Works great on my Olympus Camedia 8080 wide. It is nice and small and so much better than the pop up flash on the camera. It charges fastn and has good battery life and has a detachable diffuser on the flash in package.

This flash is great; it's added so much to my photos so they're not so dark. It's easy to use and uses it's own batteries so it doesn't drain my camera. I highly recommend this flash.

The flash FL-20 fit and worked great with my Olympus C-5050 digital camera. I recommend this product to anyone who has those series in the list.
Amazone's shipping is fast, I got it just about 2 days.