Olympus FL-BK01 Flash Bracket

Amazon's service was great! Flash bracket is a fixed flash bracket and feels solid and works great with my Olympus E-500 with an additional flash cable. Being it is a fixed handle, this does not allow the flash to be flipped when the camera is turned vertically, thus the flash is on the side rather than the top. Otherwise very nice.

The bracket isn't terrible, but it was a waste of money for me. It throws shadows on the wall to the left of my subject because it positions the flash to the left of the lens, rather than directly above the lens, where it should be. Yeah, the flash is placed higher, but I think the drawback of the shadows it creates (by being to the left of the lens) is actually worse than red-eye. You can at least fix red-eye! I didn't realize how much of a problem shadows would be until I bought/used this thing. This was just a bad purchase. I'll be buying a new flash bracket at some point, and throwing this one away. I'll need a hot-shoe cable for any other bracket, so the cable that I bought with this bracket was a waste of money, too. Live and learn.
One good thing I can say about this bracket is that it allows you to remove the handle and manually hold/position the flash away from the camera. That's nice I guess. It's a pain in the a-- to screw the thing on and off though. It should have had a simpler locking/unlocking mechanism.
My advice to others would be to save up for a proper flash bracket, and a hot-shoe cable. Like me, you may find that this bracket creates more problems than it solves, and you may wind up having to buy a different one. So get it right the first time. Don't make my mistake.

being able to raise the flash has eliinated the need to fix red eye after the fact. I also find it easier to handle the camera with grip

Pro: I bought the FL-BK01 flash bracket, to use with my Olympus C4000 camera. The bracket mounts easy to the camera and is very well made. I am using the Nikon speedlight SB 50DX flash with it. The TTL metering feature of the flash work with this adaptor and camera. Since the flash is mounted higher, I no longer have to worry about red eye. Also, able to use bounce flash with my pictures. Has allow my C4000 to perform like more expensive cameras. Should have bought this 5 years ago.

Con: Need to buy the correct cord to connect the camera and flash bracket for the flash to work. The cost of the bracket and cord together is high. Not able to turn the flash if you rotate the camera. This means that bounce flash feature cannot be used when camera is rotated 90 degrees.

This bracket is a great combination with the hot shoe for my evolt e300.