I really did not know what I was getting into when I bought this piece of equipment. All I knew was that I was cycling through an immense amount of AA sized rechargeable batteries when working as an event photographer using my Olympus FL-50 flash. This flash is awesome but when shooting subjects at a far distance this unit can eat up batteries like crazy. I bought this grip because it uses C sized batteries in the handle, which can be used to power the FL-50 flash unit. I own an Olympus E Volt 330 digital SLR and I bought the grip to have large amounts of battery power on hand. However this grip is designed to work with the Olympus E1 digital SLR and it works to the right (as viewed from the rear) of the camera body. For the E Volt 300 I needed it to work to the left of the camera body. This grip is still useable but one has to mount it to the tripod socket on the bottom of the camera 180 degrees out of it's intended position so that it is on the left side, and then swivel the head of the FL-50 180 to face the front of the scene to be photographed. Thank goodness Olympus uses the TTL exposure system for the flash otherwise this flash grip would have to be considered unusable for all cameras except the E-1. My work and education experience are what can be considered by many to be flat out unbelievable. With photography I have been able to render the unbelievable as credible just type my last name >uske< into Google from any country and in any language and click non the first link on the page of hits to see what I have done.
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