Olympus FL-36 Electronic Flash for SP series, C7070, E1, E300 & E500 Cameras

Although the Fl-36 is not supposed to work with an Olympus C-755 (like a C-750) camera...it does! The focus assist lamp on the Fl-36 automatically adjusts the focus on the C-755 so i can now get perfectly focused pictures in any light, good, low, or even no light. The flash also works in all modes including Camera Auto. That's about all I bought it for actually. The other umpteen functions the FL-36 is capable of doing don't matter very much to me. I just wanted my C-755 to take focused pictures in low light with an extended flash range, and now it will.

A flash is a flash. Being made for Olympus cameras it can be set to narrow its cone of light in synch with the zoom on an Olympus camera, if you can figure out how to make that setting. Curiously, though, as the cone of light narrows, guide numbers do not increase--the ilumination barely changes, light is merely cut off at the periphery.

The manual is inscrutable. If you don't want to spend time interpreting an engineer's specs-dump, get a cheap generic flash. I phoned for tech help to find out how to increase output for bounced fash and was told I couldn't. Actually I could, but you do that on the camera, not on the flash gun.

Olympus FL-36 Electronic Flash for SP series, C7070, E1, E300 & E500 Cameras
it is ok it is working and for now i have no problems with it

Have only used flash once, but it communicates with my Olympus e-500 digital slr perfectly. Seems to be very user friendly & easy to use. Will review again later after more uses.

I was unsure if I should have purchased the FL-50 but this flash is very powerful and does all I need. I love the ability to bounce and swivel the flash. I do think it takes a little longer to recharge than I had expected, but that may be due to the batteries I use. Regardless it was only a relevant issue once or twice over the holidays when I was madly taking photos of kids on Christmas day.